Melodrama - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: melodramaMelodrama
Formerly a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes Now a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic In opera a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment while the actor speaks as the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethovens ldquoFideliordquo...
Melodramatic
Of or pertaining to melodrama like or suitable to a melodrama unnatural in situation or action...
Melodramatist
One who acts in or writes melodramas...
Melodrame
Melodrama...
Stage-play
Stage-play. It is enacted by the (English) Theatres Act, 1843 (see THEATRE), s. 23, that:-In this Act the word 'stage-play' shall be taken to include every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, melodrama, pantomime, or other entertainment of the stage, or any part thereof: provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be constructed to apply to any theatrical representation in any booth or show which by the justices of the peace, or other persons having authority in that behalf, shall be allowed in any lawful fair, feast, or customary meeting of the like kind.See Wigan v. Strange, (1865) LR 1 CP 175...
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