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Synonyms for dramaturgy


Grammar : Noun
Spell : dram-uh-tur-jee, drah-muh-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdræm əˌtɜr dʒi, ˈdrɑ mə-

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Définition of dramaturgy

Origin :
  • "composition and production of plays," 1801, from French dramaturgie, from Greek dramatourgia, from drama (genitive dramatos) + ergos "worker" (see urge (v.)).
  • As in theatre : noun business of plays
  • As in dramatics : noun theatrics
  • As in drama : noun theatrical piece; acting
Example sentences :
  • As soon as their dramaturgy is interpreted symbolically all seems to them lost.
  • Extract from : « Amiel's Journal » by Henri-Frdric Amiel
  • The whole Semitic dramaturgy has come to seem to me a work of the imagination.
  • Extract from : « Amiel's Journal » by Henri-Frdric Amiel
  • Dramaturgy, dram′a-tur-ji, n. the principles of dramatic composition: theatrical art.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
  • Ibsen will live, not as a dramaturgist, but as the greatest professor of dramaturgy the world has ever known.
  • Extract from : « Ancestors » by Gertrude Atherton
  • The imaginative equipment of Maeterlinck's dramaturgy is rather limited and, on its face value, trite.
  • Extract from : « Prophets of Dissent » by Otto Heller
  • On the whole, Kalidasa was remarkably faithful to the ingenious but somewhat over-elaborate conventions of Indian dramaturgy.
  • Extract from : « Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works » by Kalidasa
  • Such a feat in dramaturgy is, perhaps, appreciable only to those who have tried to write plays themselves.
  • Extract from : « The Whirligig of Time » by Wayland Wells Williams
  • There was a declaration of principles to be formulated out of sagacity and dramaturgy.
  • Extract from : « Children of the Market Place » by Edgar Lee Masters
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