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Melodrama (Encyclopedia Entry).
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melodrama (Encyclopedia Entry).
- Gender & Sexuality.
- History & Society.
- Education.
- Comedy.
- Drama.
- Romance.
- Satire.
- Tragicomedy.
- Commedia Dell'Arte.
- Melodrama.
- Nineteenth Century.
- Academic.
- Local Subjects:
- Melodrama (Encyclopedia Entry).
- Gender & Sexuality.
- History & Society.
- Education.
- Comedy.
- Drama.
- Romance.
- Satire.
- Tragicomedy.
- Commedia Dell'Arte.
- Melodrama.
- Nineteenth Century.
- Academic.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- Digital Theatre Plus.
- Place of Publication:
- Digital Theatre, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Melodrama was the dominant dramatic form of the nineteenth century, c. 1810-1860, having grown out of Gothic drama. The French revolution's iconic moment - the storming of the Bastille (1789) - provided Gothic drama with its most potent image: the castle as prison to be broken open. Melodrama repudiated literature: it was a genre of performance.
- Notes:
- Robert Leach: Academic;
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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