Definitions of Dramaturgy

Dramaturgy (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dramaturgy): The art or technique of dramatic composition or theatrical representation. In this sense English dramaturgy and French dramaturgie are both borrowed from German Dramaturgie, a word used by the German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing in an influential series of essays entitled Hamburgische Dramaturgie ("The Hamburg Dramaturgy"), published from 1767 to 1769. The word is from the Greek dramatourgia, "a dramatic composition" or "action of a play."

Dramaturgy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturgy): Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. Some dramatists combine writing and dramaturgy when creating a drama. Others work with a specialist, called a dramaturg, to adapt a work for the stage. Dramaturgy may also be defined, more broadly, as shaping a story into a form that may be acted. Dramaturgy gives the work or the performance a structure.

Dramaturgy (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dramaturgy): A prentetious, over-used theatre word used by pretentious theatre people when they are trying to sound intellegent. This word has no particular or useful meaning, and is most commonly used to stump theatre students and make them question their knowledge of theatre terms.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing