melodrame

Richmond of Shakspeare to the "terrific combats" of modern melodrame.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 Various

There is another circumstance connected with the habits of the Woodcock which increases his importance as an actor in the melodrame of Nature.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

The one had the look of a melodrame; the other the look of an execution.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

It may be supposed, however, that men whom the tragedies of Smithfield failed to terrify, were not likely to be affected deeply by melodrame and blazing paper.

The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

I have also attempted to make a play without love; and there are neither rings, nor mistakes, nor starts, nor outrageous ranting villains, nor melodrame in it.

Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854

His bugle was daintily suspended by a green cord across his shoulders; it was a neat and glittering instrument, whose garniture was bedizened with the coxcombry of silken tassels, and was displayed as ostentatiously as if worn by the hero of a melodrame.

Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency. 1852

'What I mean to say is, that it is the mingled epigram and melodrame of the idea, that Marie Roget still lives, rather than any true plausibility in this idea, which have suggested it to L'Etoile, and secured it a favourable reception with the public.

The Mystery of Marie Roget 1842

A cook calls himself an artist; a tailor does the same; a man writes a gaudy melodrame, a spasmodic song, a sensational novel, and straightway he calls Himself an artist, and indulges in a pedantic jargon about 'essence' and 'form,' assuring us that a poet we can understand wants essence, and a poet we can scan wants form.

The Parisians — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

My Lord must be by nature a fine actor, -- comic, with a touch of melodrame!

My Novel — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

I felt spellbound by the interest of the sinistoe melodrame, with its quick succession of scenic effects and the metropolis of the world for its stage.

The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838