Jonson, however, is far from being able to lay a claim to such dramaturgic merit. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
Ibsen, in sheer mastery of dramaturgic means, stands fourth in rank among the world's great dramatists. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
A striking illustration of the same dramaturgic principle was shown in Mrs. Fiske's admirable performance of this play. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
Moro stages a sort of dramaturgic coup, wresting control of the film from the director for his own purposes—namely, to expose moviegoing for what it really is, a socially approved dangerous voyeurism. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
In this dramaturgic discussion, the mere reader need take no great interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference
Surely to combine the two is hardest of all, but librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal's dramaturgic skill and Strauss 'compositional genius saw them triumphantly through. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
The reason for that refusal, dimly prefigured, absorbs his thoughts, and through two acts of consummate dramaturgic suspense the sombre history is gradually unfolded. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I] Reference
Yet the two comedies of Beaumarchais are like the two comedies of Sheridan in their incessant wit, in their dramaturgic effectiveness, and in the histrionic opportunities they afford. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
Under the creative energy of Hauptmann, however, the form at once grew into drama, but a drama which sought to rely as little as possible upon the traditional devices of dramaturgic technique. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I] Reference
From a dramaturgic point of view, indeed, the long political altercation between Posa and Philip is out of place; it is magnificent, but it holds up the action to no purpose, and the play goes on as if it had not been. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
Wilhelm wrote down many of their conversations; which, as our narrative must not be so often interrupted here, we shall communicate to such of our readers as feel an interest in dramaturgic matters, by some other opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter VI. Book V] Reference
From a dramaturgic point of view, however, the Moor is a very useful invention, since Fiesco is thereby enabled to direct the whole conspiracy from his palace, and at the same time, in the person of his lieutenant, to be in every part of the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
These three only were at once playwrights of contemporary popularity, masters of dramaturgic craftsmanship, creators of character independent of their own personality, makers of plays which deal with themes of an import at once permanent and universal, and poets also, each with his own philosophy of life. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries and Opinions] Reference
I have spent the past two semesters in the study of these two great dramaturgic critics, and the whole stilted French pseudo-classicism is, as far as I'm concerned, utterly destroyed -- not only in creative art itself but in such manifestations as the boundless folly of the directions for acting which Goethe prescribed in his old age. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II] Reference
Apparently, with all his desire to write for the stage, Daudet must have been inadequately endowed with the dramaturgic faculty, that special gift of playmaking which many a poet lacks and many a novelist, but which the humblest playwright must needs have and which all the great dramatists have possessed abundantly in addition to their poetic power. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
His plays move us strangely in the performance, they grip at the outset and firmly hold us to the relentless end, because his dramaturgic skill is exerted upon themes essentially dramatic in that they deal with this stark exhibition of the human will and with the bitter struggle that must ensue when the human will is in revolt against the course of nature or against the social bond. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries and Opinions] Reference
And in yet another way is Ibsen treated like Shakspere, in that there is superabundant discussion not only of his characters, male and female, but also of his moral aim, of his sociological intention, of his philosophy of life, while very little attention is paid to his dramaturgic craftsmanship, to his command of structural beauty, to his surpassing skill in the difficult art of the play-maker. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries and Opinions] Reference
For "Twilight," she developed a dramaturgic team consisting of Dorinne Kondo, a Japanese American anthropologist and feminist scholar; Hector Tobar, a Guatemalan-American reporter from the Los Angeles Times; African-American poet and University of Chicago professor Elizabeth Alexander; and Oskar Eustis, resident director of the Taper, former director of the Eureka Theater and the man who commissioned Tony Kushner's "Angels in America.". From Wordnik.com. [Anna Deavere Smith] Reference
A willing acceptance of the formula of the "well-made play" and with no effort after novelty in his dramaturgic method. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries and Opinions] Reference
"well-made play"; and it is to this that we may ascribe the artificiality we begin to discern even in such masterpieces of dramaturgic craftsmanship as the 'Gendre de M. Poirier' and the. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries and Opinions] Reference
The modern social drama -- or the problem play, as it is popularly called -- did not come into existence till the fourth decade of the nineteenth century; but in less than eighty years it has shown itself to be the fittest expression in dramaturgic terms of the spirit of the present age; and it is therefore being written, to the exclusion of almost every other type, by nearly all the contemporary dramatists of international importance. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
Manoel de Oliveira film: formalist, dramaturgic, contemplative, and discursive. ". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
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