Using the term "melodrama" as an abstract category to describe almost any literary mode--from nineteenth-century novels to 20th-century films--modern critics have obscured the genre's historical and cultural functions as well as the nature of its specific appeal to working-class audiences. To rectify this situation, the essays in this innovative and international collection redirect attention to the historical, social, and cultural milieu in which melodrama emerged.
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Michael Hays is the author and editor of a number of books, including The Public and Performance and Critical Conditions.
Anastasia Nikolopoulou teaches drama and literary criticism at the University of Cyprus.
Anastasia Nikolopoulou teaches drama and literary criticism at the University of Cyprus.
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IN "COMRADES," A MUSICAL-HALL SONG OF 1890, the narrator and his friend since boyhood, Jack, have been ordered into battle because "England's Flag had been insulted." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Drury Lane, Martin Guerre, The Factory Lad, Cambridge University Press, The Stranger, Covent Garden, South Africa, Theatre Royal, East End, Oxford University Press, The Emerald Heart, Michael Booth, Michael Hays, Royal Circus, Walter Scott, Sadler's Wells, Sir Joseph, Douglas Jerrold, Henry Irving, New South Wales, Arthur Hobson Quinn, David Mayer, Henry Neville, Jim Davis New!
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IN "COMRADES," A MUSICAL-HALL SONG OF 1890, the narrator and his friend since boyhood, Jack, have been ordered into battle because "England's Flag had been insulted." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nautical melodrama, autumn dramas, narrative ballads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Drury Lane, Martin Guerre, The Factory Lad, Cambridge University Press, The Stranger, Covent Garden, South Africa, Theatre Royal, East End, Oxford University Press, The Emerald Heart, Michael Booth, Michael Hays, Royal Circus, Walter Scott, Sadler's Wells, Sir Joseph, Douglas Jerrold, Henry Irving, New South Wales, Arthur Hobson Quinn, David Mayer, Henry Neville, Jim Davis New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Bride of Lammermoor (Oxford World's Classics) by Sir Walter Scott on 4 pages
- Poetry for Young People: Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Dr. James Engell in Front Matter, page 141, and page 187
- The London Merchant (Regents Restoration Drama) by George Lillo in Front Matter, page 84, and page 101
- Robin Hood (Grandes Aventuras) (Spanish Edition) by Walter Scott on page 131, page 135, and page 142
- The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) by William Carleton on page 245, page 250, and page 264
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- Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson by Linda Williams in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by John W. Frick in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) by Lynn M. Voskuil in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953 by Billie Melman on page 114, and Back Matter
- Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) by Mark Pizzato in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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