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dramaturgy

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dram⋅a⋅tur⋅gy

  [dram-uh-tur-jee, drah-muh-]
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–noun
the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
Origin:
1795–1805; < Gk drāmatourgía dramatic composition, equiv. to drāmaturg(ós) playwright + -ia -y 3 . See dramatic, -urgy

Related forms:
dram⋅a⋅tur⋅gic, dram⋅a⋅tur⋅gi⋅cal, adjective
dram⋅a⋅tur⋅gi⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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dram·a·tur·gy   (drām'ə-tûr'jē, drä'mə-)   
n.  The art of the theater, especially the writing of plays.
dram'a·tur'gic, dram'a·tur'gi·cal adj.
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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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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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