The document discusses the debate between those who defend ancient Greek and Roman playwrights and those who defend modern English playwrights. It outlines the three classical unities that ancient plays followed - unity of time, place, and action - and how modern English plays often violate these unities, covering long periods of time, multiple locations, and containing sub-plots. It also notes how the ancients focused on a single, complete action in their plays and represented human passions to both delight and instruct audiences.

1. JOHN DRYDENAn Essay Of Dramatic Poetry-John Dryden -Brief Summary

2. two types of “bad”english poets “perpetually pay us with clenches upon words and a certain clownish kind of raillery”.“affects plainness to cover his wants of imagination”.“limit their dispute”.“ancients were superior to the moderns”.Terms- just and liveiy,image,human naturerepresenting,passions and humors

3. Changes of fortune, subject

4. Delight and instruction of mankindCRITESDefending the ancientsobjections to modern plays unities of time,place,actionUnity of timeAll the action should be portrayed within a single day.