...Poetics, VIII, he explains what he means by Unity of Action, and in V, he says: "... Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun ..." (Butcher's translation). Early in the sixteenth century translators of Aristotle expanded this...

...seventeenth centuries. One of Aristotle's apparently casual statements of fact—that tragedy endeavors as far as possible to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun (Poetics, chap, v)— was elaborated into a rule by certain Italian critics. Giraldi Cinthio (1504-1573)...

...still in mind, he added, not as a definite rule but as a commentary on Greek art, "Tragedy endeavors so far as possible to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed that limit" At the hands of the French and Italians, with their eternal emphasis upon form and literary...

...tragedy endeavors, so far as possible, to keep within a single circuit of the sun (ireptoSos .ffKlov), or but slightly to exceed this limit; whereas the epic action has no limits of time."3 "Endeavors" (ireiporot) was mistranslated as doit by some French writers. Aristotle rather...

...tragedy endeavors, so far as possible, to keep within a single circuit of the sun (-n-epioSos qXLov), or but slightly to exceed this limit ; whereas the epic action has no limits of time."* "Endeavors" (iretparai) was mistranslated as doit by some French writers. Aristotle rather commends...

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...that Epic poetry admits but one kind of metre, and is narrative in form. They differ, again, in their length: for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible,...limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time. This, then, is a second point of difference ; though at first the same freedom was admitted in Tragedy...

...passage reads as follows: "Epic poetry and tragedy differ, again, in their length: for tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single...of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit." This is not, of course, a law, and the Greeks often failed to observe it. The unity of place is "nowhere...

...speaking. and acting element to embody one connected and consistent action, Tragedy ' endeavoured, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sunV] The reason of this was clearly stated by Lessing. It was designed to preserve the identity. oLiheJuhorus....

...2 n « r* ao s sS 3 ' of time. Did not Aristotle (Poetics, V) remark that :< tragedy endeavors, so far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed the limit"? There should be unity of place. Did not Maggi anticipate and Castelvetro definitely formulate...