dramaturgy
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- noun
- /ˈdræməˌtɜrʤi/
- Specialized
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dramaturgia
- Understanding dramaturgy is essential for anyone looking to write a compelling script.
Examples
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Students in the drama class explored the basics of dramaturgy by analyzing famous plays.
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Borrowed terminology, like dramaturgy and transformation, can be useful terms to have in the teacher's tool belt.
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As polished as Hitchcock's films were at the time, the dramaturgy and production values of the day inevitably date the film.
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In the meantime, for Shaw's dramaturgy, the 1930s was a quirky, exploratory period, his plays often marked by ambitious experiments in form.
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There is an intricate theatrical transaction at work in Bances' dramaturgy as he establishes reciprocity between the fiction of his plays and the actual political situation.
Academic text (1998) -
Frisch, who is intent on participating in a modern dramaturgy of frustration, recognizes the heavy weight of the classical heritage: the dramaturgy of fate and peripeteia.
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The term is translated into German as Verfremdung, which became the cornerstone of Bertolt Brecht's anti-Aristotelian dramaturgy of estrangement.
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In 1925, Shaw wrote that, in what he called his "third manner" of dramaturgy, "there is no time for silences or pauses: the actor must play on the line and not between the lines" (Holroyd 357).
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The playwright's innovative approach to dramaturgy transformed the traditional narrative structure.
Synonyms
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Creating and performing plays for an audience
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An activity of making and acting in plays, often at school
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Skill in writing, designing, and producing plays for the theatre
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The art of making and performing plays on stage
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The activity of writing and making plays for the theatre
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To write, produce, and perform plays for the theatre
Study of plays and live performance at university, including their history and meaning
Surface Forms
Morphology
dramaturgy = dramaturg (semi-transparent) = drama + turg + y
The formation from 'dramaturg' + '-y' (field or practice) is regular, but the intermediary 'dramaturg' and the combining element 'turg' are not familiar to many learners.
Etymology
Dramaturgy comes from drama, meaning 'action' or 'play', and the ending -urgy, which comes from a word for 'work' or 'craft', so it literally means the 'craft of drama'. That's why dramaturgy refers to the art and technique of writing and producing plays.