Melodrama
Subtitle: The Cultural Emergence of a Genre
Contributors: Michael Hays (Editor); Anastasia Nikolopoulou (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312221270
Subjects: Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Plays; Drama; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General
First sentence: IN "COMRADES," A MUSICAL-HALL SONG OF 1890, the narrator and his friend since boyhood, Jack, have been ordered into battle because "England's Flag had been insulted."