Definition of "dramatization" [dram•a•ti•za•tion]

• The act or art of dramatizing: the dramatization of a novel. (noun)
• A work adapted for dramatic presentation: a dramatization by actors of actual recorded events. (noun)

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• "His first dramatization is of the story of Korah's rebellion from Numbers 16; in the biblical passage, the earth opens up and swallows Korah and his followers, and they go "down alive into Sheol" (16.30, NRSV)."
• "Of these aspects of Byron's poetry that challenge Romantic aesthetics, self-dramatization is the most familiar."
• "Stories that emerged from Burma and Iran were also characterized by something called the dramatization bias."