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    Dramaturgy is the study and practice of dramatic composition and representation on stage. It was first defined by Gotthold Lessing in the 18th century while working as a dramaturge at the Hamburg National Theatre, making adaptations of works for the stage. Dramaturgy analyzes elements like narrative, character, genre and ideology to manipulate stories into an actable form reflecting the current Zeitgeist. It is a practice-based discipline that was further developed and discussed by philosophers like Aristotle, Hegel, and theorists like Freytag, influencing early screenwriting manuals.

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    Dramaturgy

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    For the sociological term, see Dramaturgy (sociology).

    Dramaturgy is the study of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama
    on the stage.

    The term first appears in the eponymous work Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim
    Lessing. Lessing composed this collection of essays on the principles of drama while working as the
    world's first dramaturge at the Hamburg National Theatre. Dramaturgy is distinct from play writing and
    directing, although the three may be practiced by one individual.[1] Some dramatists combine writing
    and dramaturgy when creating a drama. Others work with a specialist, called a dramaturge, to adapt a
    work for the stage.

    Dramaturgy may also be broadly defined as "adapting a story to actable form." Dramaturgy gives a
    performance work foundation and structure. Often the dramaturge's strategy is to manipulate a
    narrative to reflect the current Zeitgeist through cross-cultural signs, theater- and film-historical
    references to genre, ideology, role of gender representation etc. in the dramatization.

    Contents

    1 Definition and history

    2 Practice

    3 Copyright

    4 See also

    5 References

    6 Further reading

    7 External links

    Definition and history

    Dramaturgy is a practice-based as well as practice-led discipline invented by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


    (the author of well known plays such as Miss Sara Sampson, Emilia Galotti, Minna von Barnhelm, and
    Nathan the Wise) in the 18th century. The Theater of Hamburg engaged him for some years for a
    position today known as "dramaturge". He was first of this kind and described his task as ‘"dramatic
    judge" ("dramatischer Richter") who has to be able to tell the difference between the stake the play has
    or the main actor or the director to make us feel comfortable or not while watching a theatrical
    performance.[2] From 1767–1770, Lessing wrote and published as result a series of criticisms, Hamburg
    Dramaturgy (Hamburgische Dramaturgie). These works analyzed, criticized and theorized the German
    theatre, and made Lessing the father of modern dramaturgy.[3]

    Based on Lessing's Hamburgische Dramaturgie[2] and Laokoon[4] and Hegel's Aesthetics (1835–38),[5]
    many authors, including Friedrich Hölderlin, Goethe, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Thornton
    Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams, reflected on theater.[6][7]

    Gustav Freytag summed up those reflections in his book The Technique of the Drama,[8] which has been
    translated into English and published in the late 19th century in the USA. Freytag's book is seen as the
    blueprint for the first Hollywood screenwriting manuals. The Technique of Play Writing by Charlton
    Andrews, 1915,[9] refers to European and German traditions of dramaturgy and understanding dramatic
    composition.

    Another important work in the Western theatrical tradition is Poetics by Aristotle (written around 335
    BCE) which analyzes tragedy. Aristotle considers Oedipus Rex (c. 429 BCE) as the quintessential dramatic
    work. He analyzes the relations among character, action, and speech, gives examples of good plots, and
    examines the reactions the plays provoke in the audience. Many of his "rules" are referred to today as
    "Aristotelian drama". In Poetics, Aristotle discusses many key concepts of drama, such as anagnorisis
    and catharsis.

    Poetics is the earliest surviving Western work of dramatic theory. The earliest non-Western dramaturgic
    work is probably the Sanskrit work Natya Shastra (The Art of Theatre), written around 500 BCE to 500
    CE, which describes the elements, forms and narrative elements of the ten major types of ancient Indian
    dramas.[10]

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