Melodrama
Articles
- ‘Does all Melbourne smell like this?’: The Colonial Metropolis in Marvellous Melbourne
A few years after George Augustus Sala had coined the term ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ in 1885, a play with that title was written and performed with…
1 May 2003 - Review of Australian Melodrama: Eighty Years of Popular Theatre by Eric Irvin
It is not particularly easy to get a complete, accurate or sympathetic picture of nineteenth century drama and theatre in Australia such that students (who…
1 May 1983 - Transforming Jane Eyre: Its Australian Stage Adaptations
The history of Australian stage adaptations of Jane Eyre illustrates the shifting fortunes and reach of melodrama and its conventions, as they become psychologised over…
31 October 2015