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Who performed the Victorian melodrama?
The Victorian stage melodrama featured a limited number of stock characters: the hero, the villain, the heroine, an old man, an old woman, a comic man and a comic woman engaged in a sensational plot featuring themes of love and murder.
What two words does the word melodrama come from?
The word "melodrama" comes from the Greek words "melos" meaning music and "drama" meaning action or plot.
What is the defintion of melodrama?
Melodrama is a dramatic work which exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. It may also refer to the genre which includes such works, or to language, behavior, or events which resemble them.
Stock characters of melodrama?
You would have: Villian Hero Heroine Loveable Rogue Elderly Parent
What four types of stock characters tat feature in melodrama?
hero, damsal, villian, sidekick
An example of a melodrama play?
A melodrama is a play or film in which the plot is often sensational and the characters may display exaggerated emotion. Anjelica Huston's 1999 film, Agnes Browne, is an example of a melodrama.
What are the types and forms of drama?
forms of drama are genre. melodrama. plot. setting .comedy. playfilms. stactle.
In Melodrama the ending is usually a happy on in which the bad are punished and the good are rewarded?
Because they re use the same stock characters and they all have a general part which they play, so melodrama usually ends with the hero defeating the villain which is a happy ending.
What are keywords for melodrama?
Stock character- stereo typical characters you would expect to see in a play such as: hero,heroine,villian,sidekick etc.
How does melodrama typically end?
what does music have to do with melodrama
Who are the main 4 characters in melodrama?
Melodrama characters are never lifelike. They are exaggerated.
Why is a melodrama called melodrama?
In the min-19th Century, theater had house orchestras which would play background music during the play, a forerunner of the film soundtrack. Stealing an idea from opera, the musicians would play a theme for each of the main characters: heroic music for the hero, romantic music for the love-interest, and music in a minor key for the villain, leaving no room for interpretation for the audience, and lacking subtlety in the plot or characterization.
