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Shakespeare could not possibly care less about the "unities" if he had never heard of them, and perhaps he never did. Some of his most famous offences against the "unities" are:
Unity of Time: The play is supposed to take place during one day. The Winter's Tale starts off when Hermione is pregnant with Perdita; in Act IV we jump forward sixteen years by which time Perdita is a young woman.
Unity of Place: The play is all supposed to take place in one place: Pericles takes place in Antioch, Tyre, Tarsus, Pentapolis, Ephesus, and Mytilene: six different Greek cities. It also occupies even more time than The Winter's Tale.
Unity of Action: There is supposed to be only one plot without subplots. A Midsummer Night's Dream has no less than four intertwining plots.
Clearly, Shakespeare had no interest whatsoever in the conventions of Greek Theatre as understood by the Classical scholars of the renaissance. And why should he? What is most remarkable is how frequently critics and scholars try to shoehorn his plays into those conventions (particularly those having to do with Tragic Heroes).
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