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Far from censuring Shakespeare for failing to observe the classical unities of action, place, and time, Johnson ridiculed the classical unities and praised Shakespeare for recognizing, for example, that if we can imagine being in Athens for the first act, we can surely imagine being in Rome for the second (see " Which means, I believe, ignore the classical unities, shove anything in, hope for the best, only connect and, if there 's sufficient energy, it 'll come off. Per the classical unities, the action takes place in 24 hours, on one set, in front of three houses on a street in Rome. |
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