Critics have already anatomized melodrama’s shifting shapes, its relations to other popular dramatic and ... 11877.7 Wilkie Collins was one of the two most prolific producers of disabled characters in ...

Fear aroused by melodrama is "paranoid." It is the feeling that "all things living and dead are combining to persecute us." "Victorian melodramatic novelists made use of bad weather, but to ...

Then check your responses against the sample answer. The first image shows characters in a Victorian melodrama. In melodrama the gestures are bold and exaggerated. The woman on her knees is ...