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Why Melodrama?

Why Melodrama?

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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


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Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.


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