Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to dramaturgy
Aeschylus is not concerned here with the mere machinery of dramaturgical device.
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “IV. Prometheus”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 1121 more example
Lloyd's Prayer was developed at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, where you'd expect it to have gotten a good dramaturgical going-over.
1988 September 30, Anthony Adler, “Lloyd's Prayer”, in Chicago Reader
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiverelating to the technical aspects of drama
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekδράω (dráō)
- Ancient Greekδρᾶμα (drâma)
- Proto-Indo-European*werǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*worǵós
- Proto-Hellenic*worgós
- Ancient Greekδραματουργός (dramatourgós)
- Frenchdramaturge
- Frenchdramaturgie
- Englishdramaturgy
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishdramaturgical
From dramaturgy + -ical.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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