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dramatisation

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n.1.same as dramatization.
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Noun1.dramatisation - conversion into dramatic form; "the play was a dramatization of a short story"
authorship, penning, writing, composition - the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
2.dramatisation - a dramatic representation
representation - an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
guerrilla theater, street theater - dramatization of a social issue; enacted outside in a park or on the street
puppetry - a stilted dramatic performance (as if by puppets)


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Interestingly, Ballantyne Tree would get into ethical hot water the following year with her more famous film, The Things I Cannot Change, where she abandoned the tactful dramatisation she imposed on middle-class sexuality, and assaulted the working-class-bound cycle of poverty with no-holds-barred direct observation, inadvertently humiliating her family subjects publicly; this film would become an object lesson in problematical ethics for generations to come.
Regarding the stricly theatrical dimensions of the chant royal, see Gros's pertinent remarks, 1996: "La fonction de l'Argument, la methode de construction et la dramatisation de l'idee, rapprochent de l' esthetique theatrale ce genre auquel on prete l'ambition de montrer et de demontrer.
32) Brown continues, "The whole riddle is thus a covert dramatisation of the sexual fantasy which supposedly drives Olivia and 'sways her life.
 
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