Why Melodrama?
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Why Melodrama?
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About this listen
Jim Davis and Kate Newey talk about the origins of melodrama in the French Revolution, the politics of it being a popular form of emotional realism and why dismissing melodrama is to dismiss popular culture today.
Plays & people named in this podcast:
- Play: Holcroft, Thomas (1802) A Tale of Mystery (an unacknowledged translation of de Pixerécourt's Cœlina, ou, l'enfant du mystère)
- Playwright: René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt
- Play: Jerrold, Douglas William (1829) Black Eyed Susan
- Actor: Thomas Potter Cooke
- Diderot, Denis (1830 [written in 1770s]) The Paradox of the Actor
- Actor: NT Hicks
- Sensation novel: Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1862) Lady Audley’s Secret. Melodrama adaptation: Hazlewood, Colin Henry (1863) first performed at the Victoria Theatre, London.
- Play: Boucicault, Dion (1868) After Dark: A Tale of London Life
- Play: Boucicault, Dion (1860) The Colleen Bawn or The Brides of Garryowen
- Playwright, critic & political activist: George Bernard Shaw
- Play: Lewis, Leopold David (1871) The Bells
- Play: Pocock, Isaac (1831) The Miller and His Men
Want to find out more after this podcast? Here's our pick of free online resources.
Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.
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