{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/621756e12da4290013f9bec8/621cf3a80fa0d50012e8dfe3?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Why Melodrama? ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/undefined/1645695950924-4fa936e85d474f8c1d4b86685b68a0a6.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><br></p><p>Jim Davis and Kate Newey talk about the origins of melodrama in the French Revolution, the politics of it being a popular form of emotional realism and why dismissing melodrama is to dismiss popular culture today.</p><p><br></p><p>Plays &amp; people named in this podcast:</p><ul><li>Play: Holcroft, Thomas (1802) <em>A Tale of Mystery</em> (an unacknowledged translation of de Pixerécourt's <em>Cœlina, ou, l'enfant du mystère</em>)</li><li>Playwright: René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt</li><li>Play: Jerrold, Douglas William (1829)<em> Black Eyed Susan</em></li><li>Actor: Thomas Potter Cooke</li><li>Diderot, Denis (1830 [written in 1770s]) <em>The Paradox of the Actor</em></li><li>Actor: NT Hicks</li><li>Sensation novel: Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1862) <em>Lady Audley’s Secret</em>. Melodrama adaptation: Hazlewood, Colin Henry (1863) first performed at the Victoria Theatre, London.</li><li>Play: Boucicault, Dion (1868) <em>After Dark: A Tale of London Life</em></li><li>Play: Boucicault, Dion (1860) <em>The Colleen Bawn or The Brides of Garryowen</em></li><li>Playwright, critic &amp; political activist: George Bernard Shaw</li><li>Play: Lewis, Leopold David (1871) <em>The Bells&nbsp;</em></li><li>Play: Pocock, Isaac (1831) <em>The Miller and His Men</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Want to find out more after this podcast? Here's our pick of <a href=\"https://wordpress.com/page/theatreandvisualculture19.wordpress.com/1768\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">free online resources</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>Music: <em>Ambient piano &amp; strings</em> by <a href=\"https://pixabay.com/music/search/zakharvalaha/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ZakharValahaa</a>.</p>","author_name":"Theatre & Visual Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century Project"}