From Melodrama to Modernity (or; from Romanticism to the Real) A Journey in Images
Illustration for Planché’s Melodrama The Vampire, 1820
Honoré Daumier, At the Melodrama, c.1860
Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830
Henry Fuseli, Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers, 1812
Painted Backdrop
Julia Margaret Cameron, Photograph of Thomas Carlyle, 1867
Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1861
Émile Zola (1840-1902), painted by Edouard Manet
Gustave Courbet, Burial at Omans, 1849
Example of a ‘Box Set’
Photograph from an early production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
André Antoine’s production of Méténier’s En Famille, 1887
Credits! Thanks to Roberta Barker, Department of Theatre, Dalhousie University for these images