Dramaturgy

Definition: Dramaturgy

Dramaturgy

Noun

1. The art of writing and producing plays.

Date "dramaturgy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Etymology: Dramaturgy \Dram"a*tur`gy\, noun. [Greek expression dramatic composition; drama root akin to English work: compare to the French expression dramaturgie.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Dramaturgy

Synonyms: dramatic art (n), dramatics (n), theater (n), theatre (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Dramaturgy

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Dramaturgy has both a dramatic and sociological meaning.

Dramaturgy in the theater is the art of dramatic composition, and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. Some dramatists combine writing and dramaturgy when creating a drama. Others work with a specialist, called a dramaturge, to adapt a work to the stage.

Dramaturgy is a sociological perspective stemming from the work of Erving Goffman. In dramaturgical sociology it is argued that human actions are dependent upon time, place, and audience.

Synonyms within Context: Dramaturgy

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
The Drama	Noun: the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Dramaturgy

English words defined with "dramaturgy": Dramaturgist. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Dramaturgy

Domain	Title
Books	An Annotated Dictionary of Technical, Historical, and Stylistic Terms Relating to Theatre and Drama: A Handbook of Dramaturgy (reference) Between the Lines: The Process of Dramaturgy (reference) Dramaturgy in American Theatre: A Source Book (reference) Hamburg Dramaturgy (reference) Political Dramaturgy of Nicodemus Frischlin: Essays on Humanist Drama in Germany (Univ of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages, 111) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Dramaturgy

"Dramaturgy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dramaturgy" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dramaturgy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
dramaturgy	10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dramaturgy

Language		Translations for "dramaturgy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dramaturgji (dramatics). (various references)

Arabic		‏فن التمثيل المسرحي, ‏فن التأليف المسرحي. (various references)

Bulgarian		драматургия (dramatics, stage, the theater, the theatre). (various references)

Czech		dramaturgie. (various references)

Dutch		Afdeling Dramaturgie (Department of Dramaturgy). (various references)

French		dramaturgie (drama, dramatic art). (various references)

German		dramaturgie (dramatics). (various references)

Hungarian		dramaturgia. (various references)

Indonesian		dramaturgi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		作劇�" . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さく�'きじゅつ. (various references)

Pig Latin		amaturgydray

Portuguese		dramaturgia. (various references)

Romanian		dramaturgie (theater, theatre). (various references)

Russian		драматургия. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dramaturgija. (various references)

Spanish		dramaturgia. (various references)

Swedish		dramatik (dramatics). (various references)

Turkish		dramaturji (dramatics), dram sanatı. (various references)

Ukrainian		драматургія (drama). (various references)

Vietnamese		nghệ thuật kịch, nền kịch. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Dramaturgy

Misspellings
	"Dramaturgy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dramaturg, dramaturgie, dramaturigy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dramaturgy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-m-r-r-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: dramaturg.
	-3 letters: gramary, yardarm.
	-4 letters: adytum, datary, datura, maraud, margay, martyr, trauma.
	-5 letters: adyta, array, aurar, damar, datum, drama, durra, gamay, gamut, gaudy, grama, guard, gurry, marry, mudra, murra, murry, radar, tardy, tarry, tryma, yurta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-m-r-r-t-u-y"
	+5 letters: dramaturgically.
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