Melodrama



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• n. 情节剧;音乐戏剧
• ［英］ n. 情节剧 ( exciting and emotional drama) ; 音乐戏剧 ( a romantic dramatic composition with music interspersed)
• ［记］ 来自melody ( 旋律) +drama ( 戏剧)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: modification of French mélodrame, from Greek melos song + French drame drama, from Late Latin drama
• Date: 1802
• 1.
  • a. a work (as a movie or play) characterized by extravagant theatricality and by the predominance of plot and physical action over characterization
  • b. the genre of dramatic literature constituted by such works
• 2. something resembling a melodrama especially in having a sensational or theatrical quality
• ? melodramatist noun

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