What's the difference between dramatics and dramaturgy?

Dramatics


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Dramaturgy


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  • (n.) The art of dramatic composition and representation.

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  • (1) With preferential rates for artists and partnerships with the likes of Somerset House and the Royal Court, you’re likely to end up arguing over Brechtian dramaturgy or post-internet art in the lift.
  • (2) However reluctant Freud was about modern dramaturgy, his ideas had a profound effect on playwrights, such as Schnitzler and O'Neill, and through them was instrumental in freeing the theatre from its Victorian moral straitjacket.
  • (3) More specifically, drawing on the works of Erving Goffman on dramaturgy, and Elizabeth Burns on theatre, it makes some suggestions concerning nursing as a form of dramatic performance, and briefly attempts to relate this to concepts of praxis drawn from the writings of Hannah Arendt and critical social theorists.
  • (4) In contrast to Goffman's dramaturgy, which stresses the artifice of social relations and suggests a cynical view of human interactions, a critical theory of dramatic praxis introduces a normative dimension in which performance may become self-realizing and emancipatory as it aspires to the status of aesthetic praxis.

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