Pre-Victorian Romantic Melodrama, Volume 1

actors adaptation attempted audience became burletta Castle of Otranto characters classical Coeur de Lion Colman comedy comic opera Countess Covent Garden critics Cumberland decline dialogue Dibdin Die Räuber Douglas Drury Lane dungeons Edward Fitzball effect eighteenth century elements England English drama English melodrama English stage Fitzball Forest France French German drama German romanticism ghost Goethe Gothic castle Gothic movement Gothic novel Götz Götz von Berlichingen hero heroine Holcroft Horace Walpole Ibid important influence interest Kemble Kotzebue Kotzebue's letters Lewis literary literature London major medieval melo melodramatists mélodrame minor theatres Nicoll nineteenth century noted original pantomime patent theatres period piece Pixérécourt play playwrights plot popular produced Räuber robber romantic drama romantic melodrama romantic movement romanticism Rousseau scenes Schiller sentimental setting Shakespeare Sheridan spectacle Sturm und Drang successful Tale of Mystery taste technique theme Thompson tragedy translated usually villain vogue Walpole's writers