These two persons felt that they were playing roles as important as those in a melodrama at the Ambigu.
The noise of the organs upon the Boulevard, which accompanied with their musical, dragging notes this savage scene, like a tremulo undertone to a melodrama at the theatre, he did not hear.
Of the Anglo-French melodrama of recent years, Mr. Burnand has been the frequent and successful satirist.
The melodrama of the last half-century has received due attention at the hands of the stage satirists.
When we come to deal with the burlesque of melodrama derived from the French, a large field opens out before us.
My friend Melpomene's dagger, and her bowl, Are in the clutches of a noisy soul With Madame Melodrama for her name.
The second act is about to begin, and I think this melodrama so poor that I much prefer to go away.
We took him a melodrama to read, called Kenilworth Castle; Warez read it.
This was as completely bewildering to the admirers of the melodrama as to those who are blind and deaf to its attractions.
Sidenote: The Coming of Irving] The rise of Irving from comedy and melodramato Shakespearean drama is attentively and sympathetically followed.
The production of themelodrama founded on Charles Reade's Never Too Late to Mend, in 1865, met with Punch's approval.
But Coleridge came in time to hold in low esteem, if not precisely "The Robbers" itself, yet that school of German melodrama of which it was the grand exemplar.
In 1799 he had made a rifacimento of a melodrama entitles "Der Heilige Vehme" in Veit Weber's "Sagen der Vorzeit.
From the Drury Lane melodrama "Good Luck" by Seymour Hicks and Ian Hay [pseud.
Based on themelodrama "The Romany Rye" by George R.
And I am overcome by the obvious truism that genuine melodrama is anything but melodramatic.
Choose between her and me," she uttered with the touch ofmelodrama that few women seem to escape.
Is it simply the confidence of a fool, and the surge of melodrama that is never very far from any of us?
That is why melodrama on the stage, with its ranting and strutting and flourishes, disgusts one by its bathos.
Downtrodden and Oppressed" is full of melodrama and full of tears; it is four times too long, being stuffed out with interminable discussions and vain repetitions.
That a man whose books never on any page show a single touch of melodrama should have reached the hearts of so many readers, proves how interesting is the truthful portrayal of human nature.
As we go on to see the part played by each of these persons in the sordid melodrama of the poet's life, we shall come to regard it as even more notable.
Their purpose seems to have been caricature rather than character-drawing, sentimentality in place of sentiment, melodrama in lieu of mystery, broad farce instead of humour.
Even the much-belauded Fagin in the Condemned Cell appears a trite and ineffective bit of low melodrama to-day.
Next came Aidee with a melodious melodrama of his own, and said he was going to quit town.
As delineated by Mr. Daly, it was true to the most sacred traditions of melodrama as he found it when he began his career.
Carrie, mentioning one of the theatres devoted to melodrama which went by that name at the time.
I suppose that this forgiveness encouraged him to believe that the situations and emotional appeals he borrowed from melodrama were not necessary to his success.
He is soon punished; he is captured by the Jews of Rome; his adventures become more and more mysterious and alarming, and more and more does melodrama invade the story.
Taylor Granville's "The System" is one of the finest examples of pure melodrama seen in vaudeville.
During these years the London stage was coming under new influences, and Wilson Barrett's vogue in melodrama had waned.
That is the chief, if not the only difference between melodrama and reality.
He lifts melodrama to the dignity of an important business, and makes it a means to an end that the mere shock-monger never dreams of.
In whatmelodrama is it that there is precisely such a scene?
Liszt subsequently formed out of Draseke's song the melodrama of the same name.
Liszt had composed this melodrama for Auguste Gotze, and frequently performed it, as well as his later melodramas, with her.
If it had a tradition, melodrama was its only representative.
The plays of Shakespeare were melodrama in the hands of a man of genius.
Shakespeare's final version of Hamlet stands nearly on the highest level; but here and there it still exhibits traces of that preëxistent melodrama of the school of Thomas Kyd from which it was derived.
In tragedy the characters determine and control the plot; in melodrama the plot determines and controls the characters.
There is therefore no logical reason whatsoever that melodrama should be held in disrepute, even by the most fastidious of critics.
All that we ask of the author of melodrama is a momentary plausibility.
The writer of melodrama initially imagines a stirring train of incidents, interesting and exciting in themselves, and afterward invents such characters as will readily accept the destiny that he has foreordained for them.
For this reason, though melodrama has always abounded, true tragedy has always been extremely rare.
