peripeteia

But Theodore Kremer, who very possibly never heard of peripety, would do exactly the same thing.

When a pupil brings in a play in favor of polygamy, Baker declines to argue but talks instead about peripety.

It is a turning-point, a veritable moral peripety, though the decisive step was taken long ago.

Has the conception of the peripety, as an almost obligatory element in drama, any significance for the modern playwright?