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What is a peripety?

What is a peripety? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Alternative form of peripeteia (“sudden change in circumstances; crisis”)
  2. (psychoanalysis) The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory.
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Contrasting with this approach of conversion as peripety was what Goddard conceives as a medieval, gradualist approach to conversion favored by the Franciscans.
But Theodore Kremer, who very possibly never heard of peripety, would do exactly the same thing.
In the third act of Othello we have a peripety handled with consummate theatrical skill.
Two parts of the Plot, then, peripety and Discovery, are on matters of this sort.
Has the conception of the peripety, as an almost obligatory element in drama, any significance for the modern playwright?
When a pupil brings in a play in favor of polygamy, Baker declines to argue but talks instead about peripety.

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