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    It is not the case that The dramatic unities of time, place, and action were not artificial constraints for the Greeks, though they would be artificial for modern dramatists.

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    • 1.Lessing argued in the Hamburgische Dramaturgie that the unities of time and place are merely derivative consequences of theatrical staging conventions, not organic expressions of Greek worldview.
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    • 2.If the unities are staging conventions rather than cultural expressions, their binding force is either universal-technical or absent, not culturally relative as the claim requires.
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    • 3.This undermines the relativist structure of the supporting argument, which treats cultural fit as the criterion distinguishing natural from artificial constraints.
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    • 1.The dramatic unities were themselves contested as artificial impositions even within Greek theatrical practice, as Aristotle's defense of them acknowledges violations by respected tragedians.
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    • 2.If the unities required theoretical justification even in their native context, they cannot be characterized as naturally arising from Greek conditions without qualification.
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    • 1.Artistic conventions are natural when they match the conditions—worldview, customs, political structures, religion—of the culture that produced them.
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    • 2.The unities of time, place, and action matched Greek cultural and theatrical conditions.
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    • 3.Modern cultural and theatrical conditions differ substantially from those of ancient Greece.
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