victorian melodrama started in the 12th century
you go to teddinton school dont you
Because it was cheap and entertaining.
The villain poses a threat to people :) :p
melodrama began in the early 12 century. The origonal founder was thought to be sir Richard Johnson.
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.
i don't know hehe Melodrama was at the height of its popularity in Britain in Victorian times.
Because it was cheap and entertaining.
you go to teddinton school dont you
the mother is often a man
The villain poses a threat to people :) :p
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melodrama began in the early 12 century. The origonal founder was thought to be sir Richard Johnson.
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.
it began in the 18th century
Melodrama began in the year 1066 in the 18th century by Charles Easdown. It became the dominant genre of the 1800's.
This character is important in Melodrama because he is the one who saves the heroine from a dangerous situation at the end of the play. He is the one who ensures the play ends happily every after for the good characters.
Leighton Teeterick Bohl has written: 'Charles Reade and the Victorian melodrama'