Melodrama outline The Victorian stage melodrama featured a small amount of characters: the hero, the villain, the heroine, an old man, an old woman, a comic man and a comic woman who all create love and murder. Often the good but not very clever hero is stopped by a scheming villain, who has usually wants the damsel in distress until fate is paid at the end to create a happy ending of good over evil.
Comedy Comedies were created for laughs. There were always skits through out the play to cheer up the audience if a tragic event had just happened. They were sometimes crude and rude. Comedies also use to mock events or famous people. They also tend to mock society. The dumb servant would play the humors character
Tragedy They were very brutal. They were very sad and always ended bad. They always involve the villain. The villain is always defeated. Somebody always dies. People died in brutal ways e.g. shot, buried alive starved. The Villain and side kick always play the murders.
Bibliography http://www.victorianweb.org/\ http://mural.uv.es/sanesca/paperiii. By Billie Pedersen
By Tessa Barnett Animal Animal Melodramas feature the animal as the heroic part, such as, Lassie and The Wizard of Oz. They were preformed in the nineteenth century era. Actors and actresses who worked in theatre with dogs were known as “dog Hamlets”.
Animal Melodramas were often very enthusiastic with their partners. Groups of three were often used as main characters – two people + animal – the animal was mostly the hero while the two people were villain and his sidekick.
Nautical Drama By Tessa O’Brien
Information Nautical drama was aimed more at the Gothic scene. The Nautical melodrama reached its peak in the 1820's, although productions of them continued throughout the century. The most famous playwright was Douglas Jerrold, who wrote quite a lot of nautical melodramas. E.g. Black Ey'd Susan, which was first performed in 1829. Uses a ‘pinafore’ effect. Described as witty parody, and is known and used in theatre now days.
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