Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to dramaturgy; histrionic; theatrical; stagy; hence, unreal.
- In anthropology, bringing about effects by means of a dramatic performance, as in cases where a myth is dramatized with a view of bringing about the events the origin of which is accounted for in the myth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to dramaturgy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the art of
dramatic composition for thestage .
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- adjective relating to the technical aspects of drama
Etymologies
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Examples
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Moro stages a sort of dramaturgic coup, wresting control of the film from the director for his own purposes—namely, to expose moviegoing for what it really is, a socially approved dangerous voyeurism.
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Moro stages a sort of dramaturgic coup, wresting control of the film from the director for his own purposes—namely, to expose moviegoing for what it really is, a socially approved dangerous voyeurism.
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A striking illustration of the same dramaturgic principle was shown in Mrs. Fiske's admirable performance of this play.
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Ibsen, in sheer mastery of dramaturgic means, stands fourth in rank among the world's great dramatists.
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Jonson, however, is far from being able to lay a claim to such dramaturgic merit.
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The present prevalence of objection to both is due largely to the strong influence of Ibsen's rigid dramaturgic structure.
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Wilhelm wrote down many of their conversations; which, as our narrative must not be so often interrupted here, we shall communicate to such of our readers as feel an interest in dramaturgic matters, by some other opportunity.
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To her, in these days of imminent dismay, my thoughts flew out as to a fair protecting saint; until the inspiration of her visionary presence wrought in my fancy with such a dramaturgic power, that I seemed to walk daily with her, and to know all those delicate and sweet propinquities by which liking passes into affection and affection is glorified into love.
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I have spent the past two semesters in the study of these two great dramaturgic critics, and the whole stilted French pseudo-classicism is, as far as I'm concerned, utterly destroyed -- not only in creative art itself but in such manifestations as the boundless folly of the directions for acting which Goethe prescribed in his old age.
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The third is our new fellow pupil in the field of dramaturgic activity, the _studiosus theologiae_, who is detained at present at the corner of
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