dovetailedness

If you will bear in mind that a playlet is only as good as its plot, that a plot is a _story_ and that you must give to your story, as has been said, "A completeness -- a kind of universal dovetailedness, a sort of general oneness," you will have little difficulty in observing the one playlet rule that should never be broken -- Unity of action.

Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

'The unities, sir,' he said, 'are a completeness -- a kind of universal dovetailedness with regard to place and time -- a sort of a general oneness, if I may be allowed to use so strong an expression.

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

‘The unities, sir,’ he said, ‘are a completeness — a kind of universal dovetailedness with regard to place and time — a sort of a general oneness, if I may be allowed to use so strong an expression.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007