Melodrama
A melodrama is a drama with musical accompaniment and interludes, although the word has come to have a different popular meaning in English. In the technical sense of the word,... More »
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The word "melodrama" is a portmanteau word, formed by combining the words "melody" (from the Greek "melōidía", meaning "song") and "drama". Thus, in melodrama, music is used to increase the spectator'...
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Etymology: modification of French mélodrame, from Greek melos song + French drame drama, from Late Latin drama. Date: 1802...
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Extensive look at this diverse genre. Melodrama, a combination of drama and melos (music), literally means "play with music." The themes of dramas, the oldest literary and stage art form, were exaggerated within melodramas, and the liberal use of music often enhanced their emotional plots.
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melodrama n. A drama, such as a play, film, or television program, characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and.
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The seemingly endless variety of "heroic" and "villianous" character types in television melodrama, whose weekly travails and romantic interests ground the...
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and the other was the melodrama of Pixérécourt and Ducange, derived more or less directly from the emotional drama of Kotzbue, but depending not so much on the depicting of passion as on the linking together of startling situations at once unexpected by the spectator and yet carefully prepared by the playwright.
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