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John Dryden's vi8ew on Three Unities
1.
2. Topic: Dryden’s view on three
unities
Paper: 3 ( Literary theory and criticism )
Name: Bhatt Urvi P.
Roll no. 36
Class: sem-1
P.G.Enrollment No. : PG13101004
Seat No. : 1130036
Email id: bhatt.urvi22@gmail.com
Submitted to: Smt S.B.Gardy
Department of English Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Bhavnagar
(Gujarat-India)
6. Battle of the ancients
and moderns-the
critical comparison of
Greek and Roman
authors more resent
once was fought.
The two sides as a
debate among four
friends.
7. Prefers the lively
English Drama to
lifeless French tragedy
Believes to write
without regard for the
prescription for good
writing.
8. Dryden’s defense on the violation
of three unities:
Gives copiousness and variety to the
English plays
French plays are often betrayed into
absurdities from which English plays
are free.
Disregarded of unities enable them to
give ‘just’ and ‘lively’ picture of human
nature.
French plays are regular but not live.
9. Shakespeare’s plays are close to
human life.
English observes the rules as Ben
Jonson did in ‘Silent Woman’
Shows better skill than French
playwrights.
Observing rules depends upon
‘genius’ or ‘skill’ of the writer.
10. ‘Sub-plot’ brings
variety, richness and
liveliness.
French had narrow and
cramped plays.
Results in improbability.
Gives strain on the
imagination of the
spectators.
11. Lisideius argues :
“ we cannot so speedily
recollect ourselves after a
scenes of great passion
and concernment to pass
to another of mirth and
humor and to enjoy it
with any relish.”
12. Neander replied :
“ why should he imagine
the soul of man more
heavy than his senses?
Does not the eye pass
from an unpleasant object
to a pleasant in a much
shorter time?
“gratification of senses is
primary, secondary that
of soul”
13. Conclusion:
Dr. Johnson writes “the stage is a stage
and the play is a play.”
Dryden believes that if the ends of
drama are better fulfilled by a violation
of the unities
There is no harm in violating them.
Shakespeare has produced more ‘just’
and ‘lively’ plays
Though he has utterly disregarded the
unities.
