The Cambridge companion to English melodrama / edited by Carolyn Williams.
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TextSeries: Cambridge companions to literaturePublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018Description: 320 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781107479593 (pbk.) :Other title: Companion to English melodrama | English melodramaSubject(s): Melodrama, English -- History and criticism | English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 822'.0527'0908 Summary: This series of essays offers both an overview of the field and also current emerging critical views on the history, form, and influence of English melodrama. Authoritative voices provide an introduction to melodrama's early formal features such as tableaux and music, and trace the development of the genre in the nineteenth century through the texts and performances of its various sub-genres, the theatres within which the plays were performed, and the audiences who watched them.
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This series of essays offers both an overview of the field and also current emerging critical views on the history, form, and influence of English melodrama. Authoritative voices provide an introduction to melodrama's early formal features such as tableaux and music, and trace the development of the genre in the nineteenth century through the texts and performances of its various sub-genres, the theatres within which the plays were performed, and the audiences who watched them.
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