dramaturgy

[ dram-uh-tur-jee, drah-muh- ]

/ ˈdræm əˌtɜr dʒi, ˈdrɑ mə- /

the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.

Origin of dramaturgy

1795–1805; < Greek drāmatourgía dramatic composition, equivalent to drāmaturg(ós) playwright + -ia -y³. See dramatic, -urgy

dram·a·tur·gic, dram·a·tur·gi·cal, adjective dram·a·tur·gi·cal·ly, adverb

This does not seem like a profound bit of dramaturgy on my part, and he agrees with it.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days |David Freeman |December 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Ibsen will live, not as a dramaturgist, but as the greatest professor of dramaturgy the world has ever known.

Ancestors |Gertrude Atherton
Such a feat in dramaturgy is, perhaps, appreciable only to those who have tried to write plays themselves.

The Whirligig of Time |Wayland Wells Williams
On the whole, Kalidasa was remarkably faithful to the ingenious but somewhat over-elaborate conventions of Indian dramaturgy.

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works |Kalidasa

The whole Semitic dramaturgy has come to seem to me a work of the imagination.

Amiel's Journal |Henri-Frdric Amiel
Dramaturgy, dram′a-tur-ji, n. the principles of dramatic composition: theatrical art.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) |Various

dramaturgy

/ (ˈdræməˌtɜːdʒɪ) /

the art and technique of the theatre; dramatics

dramaturgic or dramaturgical, adjective dramaturgically, adverb