French Melodrama

Melodrama marks a shift in the conception of theatrical performance in France. This redefinition of theatre apart from the classical tradition begins around 1770 and comes into full force by the turn of the nineteenth century. As we shall explore later, this shift is marked by three types of changes: transformations of form, reference, and audience. By the mid-nineteenth century the melodrama is beginning to serve as the prototype for the Romantic theatre, to which, in a sense, it cedes its place. Only in one sense, though; for Romantic theatre can be seen as a permutation of melodrama, as Peter Brooks suggests in The Melodramatic Imagination

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  Open Access•Sarah Adams, Sarah J Adams•Cultural History•2020

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