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Dramaturgy

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Dramaturgy 

The dramatic works of a writer, people, or period.

(2) The plot and characters of a play or film. Literary drama, transformed in the modern theater into a director’s script, forms the basis of theatrical dramaturgy. In cinematography, dramaturgy takes the form of screen-plays.



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An interesting addition to the dramaturgy of the CD is the choice of the cantata Czech Rhapsody, also written in 1918.
Attempting to enliven the formal dramaturgy of Baroque opera, they time-shifted to Victorian England, ostensibly to throw Semele's extra-marital pregnancy by the ever-randy Jupiter into sharp relief against fusty contemporary morals.
All this makes for angry, disturbing theatre, though it also reveals an unwillingness on Phelan's part to allow Bellini's music and dramaturgy to generate their own tensions.
 
 
 
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