Dramaturge vs. Dramaturg

Dramaturgenoun

Someone who writes or adapts theater plays, a playwright, dramatist, especially one connected with a specific theater or company.

Dramaturgenoun

A literary adviser or editor in a theater, opera, or film company that researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programs (or helps others with these tasks), consults with authors, and does public relations work.

Dramaturgenoun

a dramatist.

Dramaturgenoun

a literary editor on the staff of a theatre who liaises with authors and edits texts.

Dramaturge

A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults authors, and does public relations work. Its modern-day function was originated by the innovations of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, an 18th-century German playwright, philosopher, and theatre theorist.

Dramaturgnoun

alternative form of dramaturge