1. By Adam and Manon

2.  Melodrama was very popular in the Victorian Era.  The plays consisted of:  Over dramatic plots.  Outsized emotion.  Over simplified characters such as...

4.  The first melodramatic play is often considered to be August Von Kotzebue’s “Misanthropy and Repentance” of 1798.  Kotzebue’s plays established melodrama as the dominant dramatic form of the early 19 th century.  His along with the famous Rene Charles Guilbert de Pixerecourt...

5.  Best known for the modern melodrama such as “the Dog of Montarges”.  He was French but wrote melodramatic plays that were performed in Victorian theatre.  FUN FACT!!!! “THE DOG OF MONTARGES” WAS BASED UPON A LETTER BY JULIUS CAESAR!!!!

6.  The audience were largely working class and he appealed to this with his plays such as “Black Eyed Susan”.  “I am proud to have helped in this success in obtaining freedom for the people’s amusement. Never again will you be deprived of free theatre.”

7.  Irish born and student at the University of Oxford.  Wilde’s most distinctive and engaging plays are the four comedies; Lady Windermone’s Fan, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance and The Importance of Being Earnest.

8. I found that quite interesting indeed!