dramaturgy
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əˌtɜr noun
the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
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dramaturgy (ˈdræməˌtɜːdʒɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
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| the art and technique of the theatre; dramatics | |
| drama'turgic | |
| —adj | |
| drama'turgical | |
| —adj | |
| drama'turgically | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
dramaturgy
"composition and production of plays, 1801, from Fr. dramaturge (1688), introduced by poet Jean Chapelain (1595-1674), from Gk. dramatourgia, from drama (gen. dramatos) + ergos "worker."
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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dramaturgy
the art or technique of dramatic composition or theatrical representation. In this sense English dramaturgy and French dramaturgie are both borrowed from German Dramaturgie, a word used by the German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing in an influential series of essays entitled Hamburgische Dramaturgie ("The Hamburg Dramaturgy"), published from 1767 to 1769. The word is from the Greek dramatourgia, "a dramatic composition" or "action of a play."
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Example sentences
He explained that dramaturgy had as much to do with his choice of action as any political statement.
Ethnographic dramaturgy is discussed at a theoretical and empirical level.
Other areas of expertise may include: directing, dramaturgy, playwriting.
It is one of the picture's major virtues that it reproduces an era without stooping to its dramaturgy.
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