Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in dramaturgy.
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- noun A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a
playwright .
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Examples
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During the six years spent in England, he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959.
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Shaw, a highly dexterous dramaturgist, smothers his dramaturgy in a pifflish iconoclasm that is no more than a disguise for Puritanism.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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Many a one looking backwards upon some terrible and unexpected tragedy will have noticed with what care the great dramaturgist so wove his play that every little unheeded event in the days before helped directly to create the final catastrophe.
The Summons 1906
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The work of the unrecognized dramaturgist who concealed himself under the pseudonym of Roly-Poly.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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In the instincts of a dramaturgist both Vigny and Hugo fell far short of ALEXANDRE DUMAS (1803-70).
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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He was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959.
Vanguard News 2009
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He was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959.
Vanguard News 2009
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He was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959.
Vanguard News 2009
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The Persecution and Assassination of Reality as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Snatchland Under the Direction of the Marquises d 'Elite, after that nearly-eponymous work by Peter Weiss about the Marquis de Sade's career as a dramaturgist among the crazies.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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He was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959.
Vanguard News 2009
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