| Description |
xviii, 334 pages 24 cm |
| Physical Medium |
8vo. rdabf |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-325). |
| Contents |
A melodramatic apprenticeship -- The villain enters -- The "Boulevard du crime" -- Pantomime into melodrama ; Cœlina, child of mystery -- The art of Pixerécourt ; The plays of Pixerécourt: domestic and historic melodrama -- Pixerécourt's contemporaries: propaganda, horse, and courtroom drama -- Harbingers of romantic drama: the morals of melodrama -- The impact of romantic drama -- The cape-and-sword hero -- Low life and high: the melodrama of the city -- Adolphe Dennery and the last days of French classical melodrama -- The English background -- Patent house melodrama -- The opera and music in melodrama -- The rise of the minors -- Highwaymen and housebreakers -- The British Tar as a proletarian hero -- English domestic and Adelphi drama -- The manufacture of melodrama and theatre economics -- Boucicault and the stage Irishman -- The fine art of plagiarism -- Girls who took the wrong turn -- The villain and melodramatic acting -- The twilight of the gallery gods -- American primitives -- The wild west -- The delirium tremens drama -- Uncle Tom's cabin -- Virtue in the country, crime in the town -- Melodrama comes of age: Belasco and Gillette -- "Ten, Twent', Thirt'" -- The murder mystery and psychological melodrama -- Melodrama went thataway. |
| Subject |
Melodrama -- History and criticism.
|
|
Melodrama. (OCoLC)fst01015770
|
|
Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0
|
|
Französisch (DE-588)4113615-9
|
|
Melodrama (DE-588)4122277-5
|
|
Rührstück (DE-588)4268886-3
|
|
United States (DE-588)4078704-7
|
|
Englisch.
|
|
Französisch.
|
|
United States.
|
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1770-1910
|
|
Geschichte 1790-1900
|
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
|
| Other Form: |
Online version: Rahill, Frank. World of melodrama. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1967 (OCoLC)647059996 |
| ISBN |
0271731133 |
|
9780271731131 |
|
