dramaturgy
[dram-uh-tur-jee, drah-muh-]
- the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
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Origin of dramaturgy
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Contemporary Examples
This does not seem like a profound bit of dramaturgy on my part, and he agrees with it.
Historical Examples
As soon as their dramaturgy is interpreted symbolically all seems to them lost.
Amiel's JournalHenri-Frdric Amiel
The whole Semitic dramaturgy has come to seem to me a work of the imagination.
Amiel's JournalHenri-Frdric Amiel
Dramaturgy, dram′a-tur-ji, n. the principles of dramatic composition: theatrical art.
Ibsen will live, not as a dramaturgist, but as the greatest professor of dramaturgy the world has ever known.
AncestorsGertrude Atherton
The imaginative equipment of Maeterlinck's dramaturgy is rather limited and, on its face value, trite.
Prophets of DissentOtto Heller
dramaturgy
- the art and technique of the theatre; dramatics
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Word Origin and History for dramaturgy
n.
"composition and production of plays," 1801, from French dramaturgie, from Greek dramatourgia, from drama (genitive dramatos) + ergos "worker" (see urge (v.)).
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