What is the unity of time?
Unity of time is one aspect of a larger neo-classic concern for what is called verisimilitude - the likeness of truth. This concept is based equally on a highly rationalistic theory of what audiences will and not believe, and a platonic ( not Aristotlean ) theory of imitation as mimicry.
It underlines all the three " unities " attributed to Aristotle by neo-classic critics: Unity of action, unity of time and unity of place and also has important implications for characterization, language, and even verification. The 20th-century critics rejected the idea that Aristotle advocated the unity of time in poetics.
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