To evaluate my assignment click here Aristotle’s Poetics ARISTOTLE AND DRYDEN'S VIEWS ON THREE UNITIES Department of English (M.K.B.U.) Parmar Dipali K. Roll No: 30 M.A. Sem. 1 Batch: 2015-’17 Email Id: dipaliparmar247@gmail.com Dryden's views on the three dramatic unities Supporting the ancients, Crites reminds that all the rules of drama were discovered by the ancients. The English have added nothing of their own in Aristotle's Poetics and Horace's Ars Poetica. The three dramatic unities—Unity of time, Unity of Place, and Unity of Action—are the special gifts of the ancients. The French call them the three unities. 1. The Unity of Time: The unity of time they comprehend in twenty-four hours, the compass of a natural day, or as near as it can be contrived; and the reason of it is obvious to everyone,--that the time of the feigned action, or fable of the play, should be proportioned as near as can be to the duration of th...