dramatisation

Thân thiện

The play is a dramatisation of a classic novel.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A dramatic representation: A performance, such as a play, film, or radio show, that presents a story or event in a dramatic form.
   • Conversion into dramatic form: The act or process of adapting a non-dramatic work (like a novel or historical event) into a drama for the stage, screen, or radio.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The television dramatisation of the novel was very popular.
  • The dramatisation of the trial focused on the key emotional moments.
  • Her job involves the dramatisation of classic books for radio.

Advanced Usage

• "A faithful dramatisation": An adaptation that tries to stay very close to the original source material.
  • The film is a faithful dramatisation of the author's early life.
• "A fictionalised dramatisation": An adaptation that intentionally alters or adds fictional elements to the original story or facts.
  • The movie is a fictionalised dramatisation based on true events.

Variants and Related Words

• Dramatization (noun): The standard spelling in American English, identical in meaning to "dramatisation" (British English).
• Dramatise (verb, British English) / Dramatize (verb, American English): To adapt or present something as a drama; to make something seem more exciting or serious than it really is.
  • The writer was hired to dramatise the historical biography.
  • He has a tendency to dramatise minor problems.
• Adaptation (noun): A more general term for a film, television programme, etc., that has been made from a book or play.

Synonyms

• Adaptation: A version of a work adapted for a different medium.
• Staging: The act of presenting a play on stage.
• Theatricalization: The process of making something suitable for the theatre.

Related Phrases

• Dramatic licence / Artistic licence: The freedom to deviate from facts or source material for artistic effect, often used in the process of dramatisation.
  • The screenwriter took some dramatic licence with the timeline of events.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a dramatic representation
2. conversion into dramatic form
   • the play was a dramatization of a short story

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