dramatisation
Definition
- 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.
Noun
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a dramatic representation
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conversion into dramatic form
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the play was a dramatization of a short story
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