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Definition of Melodramatists
1. melodramatist [n] - See also: melodramatist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melodramatists
Literary usage of Melodramatists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"Clearly the melodramatists are dissembling. The Extravagant Travesty plays two
hours and three- quarters, and is therefore about two hours too long. ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"Melodrama of this type began to fail, and the melodramatists were drawn towards
work of a different kind. But the breathless stimulation, excitement, ..."
3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"Title-page of Dekker and Middleton's "Roaring Girle, ' 1611 melodramatists of
the blood-curdling type, little interested in the sane development of a plot ..."
4. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"Kyd's Spanish Tragedy was the standard play in the class : succeeding melodramatists
could only rack their inventions for scenes and incidents of horror ..."
5. The American Dramatist by Montrose Jonas Moses (1917)
"Though they would be the first to disclaim it, they are nothing more than
melodramatists, not in the exaggerated sense of Eighth Avenue, ..."
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