The Cambridge companion to English melodrama [electronic resource] / edited by Carolyn Williams.

Contributor Williams, Carolyn, 1950- editor.

ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Description1 online resource (xxii, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Note:Early English melodrama / Matthew Buckley -- Gothic melodrama / Michael Gamer -- Nautical melodrama / Ankhi Mukherjee -- Domestic melodrama / Christine Gledhill -- Theatres and their audiences / Jim Davis -- Melodramatic music / Michael V. Pisani -- Melodramatic acting -/ George Taylor -- Stagecraft, spectacle, and sensation / Hayley Jayne Bradley -- Melodrama and gender / Katherine Newey -- Melodrama and class / Rohan McWilliam -- Melodrama and empire / Marty Gould -- Melodrama and race / Sarah Meer -- Melodrama and the realist novel / Carolyn Williams -- Melodrama and early [silent] film / David Mayer -- Moving picture melodrama / Jane M. Gaines -- Melodrama and the modern musical / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman -- Melodrama and psychoanalysis / Peter Brooks -- Metamodern Melodrama and contemporary mass culture / Juliet John.

Note:This newly commissioned series of essays by leading scholars is the first volume to offer 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. The historical contexts of melodrama are considered through essays on topics including contemporary politics, class, gender, race, and empire. And the extensive influences of melodrama are demonstrated through a wide-ranging assessment of its ongoing and sometimes unexpected expressions - in psychoanalysis, in other art forms (the novel, film, television, musical theatre), and in popular culture generally - from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

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