The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820.
(2018)
Book
Hambridge, K., & Hicks, J. (Eds.). (2018). The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820. The University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226563091.001.0001
We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look—from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein’s creation, and from Louise Brooks’s exaggerated acting in Pandora’s Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshap... Read More about The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820..