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For strictlyadhenngto classical forms grew out- of a unique synthesis of Aristotle's Poetics and Horace's Ars Poetica. they tended to treat prescriptively rather than ·descriptively. The most famous instance is the doCtrine. extrapolates from Aristotle's notion of the unity of action to demand that drarrlas 'have not only one action but, also one setting and a brief span of fictional time (not exceeding one day). Here Aristotle's original description ofa body of preexisting Greek tragedies is turned into a set of rules for the writing of plays.
A few of the lengthiest selections-by Longinus, John Dryden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Adrienne Rich, for instance-had to be trimmed, and each editor had favorite figures xxxvi / PREFACE dropped. The enclosure of post-World War II theorY in the university and its I increased professionalization have meant that contemporary nonacademic critics, literary journalists, and writers' have' been largely excluded from the theory canon-a trend slowly being reversed, we hope. 'wil1 go global. Our Selected, Bibliography posed its ,own' nagging: challenges.
W. Norton, our editor, Peter Simon, guided this anthology with great professional care. Our exceptional copyeditor, Alice Falk, made significant contributions throughout this project, and Marian Johnson and Isobel Evans, managing editor and assis~nt editor, respectively, kept the complex publishing process moving smoothly. We thank them all. We appreciate our supportive home universities, especially the libraries at Harvard University, Kenyon College, the University of Missouri, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Oklahoma, and Wellesley College.
