Definition of Dramaturgy

1. Noun. The art of writing and producing plays.


Definition of Dramaturgy

1. n. The art of dramatic composition and representation.

Definition of Dramaturgy

1. Noun. (context: theater) The art of dramatic composition for the stage. ¹

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Definition of Dramaturgy

1. [n -GIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dramaturgy

dramatized
dramatizes
dramatizing
dramatological
dramatologically
dramatology
dramaturg
dramaturge
dramaturges
dramaturgic
dramaturgical
dramaturgically
dramaturgies
dramaturgist
dramaturgists
dramaturgy (current term)
dramedies
dramedy
drammach
drammachs
drammed
dramming
drammings
drammock
drammocks
drams
dramseller
dramsellers
dramshop
dramshopkeeper

Literary usage of Dramaturgy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"LESSING'S ESTIMATE OF HIMSELF In the Concluding Number of the <Hamburg dramaturgy > I AM neither an ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The specialities of Greek tragic dramaturgy refer above all to the choros ; its general laws are those of the regular drama of all times. ..."

3. Sensation and Intuition: Studies in Psychology and Aesthetics by James Sully (1880)
"And of all Lessing's works none seems to have received a more scanty recognition from English writers than the Ham- lurg dramaturgy. Yet, while a fragment, ..."

4. Letters Auxiliary to the History of Modern Polite Literature in Germany by Heinrich Heine (1836)
"the arts are his " Hamburg dramaturgy" and his " Laocoon, or the Boundaries of Painting and Poetry." His most distinguished dramas are, " Emilia Galotti," ..."

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