dramaturgy

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  1. noun The art of the theater, especially the writing of plays.

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  • The authors suggest that practice-based research can also inform strategy teaching by providing students with rich case studies of strategy work as actually practiced, analyzed through such sociological lenses as ethnomethodology, dramaturgy, and institutional theory. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The text is a long love letter but also, in a variation on the circus dramaturgy, a reflection on the place of the artist in the world, his loneliness and peculiar relationship with death. —  The Daily Star > News Feed
  • Walter Reade, I started thinking about dramaturgy, and how it relates to my tastes .... —  GreenCine Daily
  • "Distracted" may not be great dramaturgy, but it does provide two hours of highly animated distraction. —  1. BroadwayStars News Report
  • "Not content to be a mildly diverting royal bodice-ripper, it spirals out of control into the kind of overwrought dramaturgy that's out of its league," writes Gill Pringle profiles Portman for the Independent. —  GreenCine Daily
 

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  1. from French dramaturgie = Spanish Portuguese dramaturgia = Italian drammaturgia = D. G. dramaturgie = Danish Swedish dramaturgi, from Greek δραματουργία from δραματουργός, a playwright: see dramaturge.
 

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/ˈdræmətərdʒi/
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