Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09593-9 — The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama Edited by Carolyn Williams Index More Information INDEX acting manuals, 116–17, 153 Australia, 177, 184 acting, melodramatic, 2, 80, 99, 109, 112–23, avalanches, 135–6 230–1 ‘stock’ emotions in, 114–17 ‘bad woman’ melodrama, 75, 86, 233, 238 in early film, 230–1 ballet, 263–4 performance conventions of, 99, 112–13, Balzac, Honoré de, 283–6 114–17, 118–19, 121–3 Peau de chagin, La (The Fatal Skin), relation to physiological theories, 115–18, 283–6 120–1 Barras, Charles M., 263–4 shift to restrained style, 121–3 Black Crook, The, 262, 263–4 adaptation, 13, 20–1, 29, 33, 39–45, 49, Barrymore, William, 180 51–2, 87, 96, 160, 166–7, 227, 228–9, El Hyder; or, The Chief of the Ghaut 232, 239–41, 251, 253, 262–3, 268–73 Mountains, 180–1 novel to stage, 20, 33, 39–40, 43–5, 51–2, Bart, Lionel, 268–9 158, 160, 166–7, 268–73 Oliver!, 262, 268–73 stage to film, 239–41, 246 Bentley, Eric, 112–13, 253, 290, 301 Adelphi Theatre, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, Bernhardt, Sarah, 235 52, 79, 82, 98, 152, 172, 200 Berthelet, Arthur, 239–40 Affect, 2–3, 17, 22, 63, 89, 160, 176, 219 Sherlock Holmes (film), 239–40 Africa, 177, 179 Biche au Bois, La (The Doe of the Forest), Aldridge, Ira, 195–6 263–4 American Revolution, 52 Big Brother franchise (television), 291–6 Anglo-Afghan War, Second, 178 Biograph Company, 227, Anglo-Egyptian War, 178 232–4, 235 Anglo-Maratha Wars, 181 Birmingham, 88–9 Anglo-Mysore Wars, 181 Blaché, Alice Guy, 246–7 Anglo-Zulu War, 178, 183 Strike, The (film), 246–7 anti-Semitism, 271–3 Boaden, James, 34–6 Jewish caricatures in melodrama, 226, Fontainville Forest, 35–6 271–3 Boer War, 179, 180, 182, 183–4, 186 Armstrong, Lance, 297–301 Booth, Michael, 5, 49, 51, 127, 174, 212, Astley’s Amphitheatre, 18, 86, 230 291, 298 audiences, melodramatic, 6, 62, 78–90, 170, Boucicault, Dion, 75, 80, 82–3, 87, 112, 266, See also theatres 121–2, 127–9, 134, 186–8, 194, age demographics of, 85–6 198–200, 202–3, 221, 253, 265 class composition of, 78–9, 81–2, 83, Colleen Bawn, The, 75, 76, 82, 87, 98, 122, 84–9 128–9, 253 early film audiences, 225, 235 Corsican Brothers, The, 82, 121–2, 220 316 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09593-9 — The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama Edited by Carolyn Williams Index More Information Index Jessie Brown; or, The Relief of Lucknow, Coburg Theatre(Victoria Theatre), 17, 19, 20, 186–8, 268 22, 24, 26, 27, 79, 81, 86–7, 172–3 Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana, The, 134, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 38 194, 198–200, 265 Collins, John, 240 Shaughraun, The, 112, 122 Blue Jeans (film), 240 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 52 Colman, George (the Younger), 18, 31–3 Lady Audley’s Secret (novel), 75 Blue-Beard, 18, 37–8, 43 Lady Audley’s Secret (theatrical Mountaineers, The, 31–3, 40 adaptations), 75–6, 80 colonial expansion, 48, 50, 224 Genevieve, 135 comedy, 1, 17, 95 Bradley, Hayley Jayne, 126–42 comic figures, 1, 54, 70–1, 172, 193, 213 Bratton, Jacky, 5, 6–7, 89, 213, 268 Commedia dell’Arte, 114 Brecht, Bertolt, 257–8, 274 Cooke, Thomas Potter, 44, 51–4, 81, 84, Britannia Theatre, 79, 84–5, 156 116, 154 British Theatres Act of 1843, 267 Corn Laws, 49 Brooks, Peter, 4, 5–6, 63, 64–5, 76, 112, 174, Covent Garden Theatre, 1, 6, 13, 16, 23, 33, 210, 250, 252, 277–87, 289, 291, 40, 50, 79–80, 167, 196 292–3, 301–2 Cox, Jeffrey, 38, 48, 53 Brown, William Wells, 196–7 Craig, Edward Gordon, 113–14, 122 Buchanan, Robert, 106–10 crime melodrama, 15, 27–30, 104, 172–3, Man’s Shadow, A, 106–10 See also economic distress melodrama Buckley, Matthew, 1, 2–3, 7, 13–30, 212 Crimean War, 180 Buckstone, John Baldwin, 21, 62, 69, 82, cross-cut sequence, 252–5 97–8, 152–3, 200 as manager of the Adelphi Theatre, 200 Daly, Augustin, 134 Luke the Labourer; or, The Lost Son, 21, Under the Gaslight, 134 62, 65, 69, 97–8, 171, 173, 210 Daniel, George (D-G), 55–6, 62, 63 Agnes de Vere; or, The Wife’s Revenge, 152 Davis, Jim, 6, 78–90 burlesque, 100, 170, 195, 202 Davis, Tracy C., 6–7, 268 Burmese War, 19 debt, 53, 57, 68–9, 71, 151, 168 Byron, George Gordon, 32, 37, 230 Delsarte, François, 120–1, 230–1 Denvil, Mary Ann, 156–61 Capellani, Albert, 232–3 Descartes, René, 115–16, 118, 120 capitalism, 48, 65, 75, 76, 155, 165, 180, 246, Dibdin, Thomas, 49–50 247, 258 Hermione; or, Retaliation, The, 49–50 Céleste, Céline, 82, 200–1, 202 Dickens, Charles, 78–9, 86, 117, 166–7, 201, character, melodramatic, 114, 212–15 209, 211, 216, 240–1, 247 archetypes, 1, 64–5, 112–13, 212–15 Bleak House (theatrical adaptations), as psychic signs, 64–5, 112, 278 166–7 minor characters, 54–5, 64, 70–1, 172, 213 Oliver Twist (novel), 210, 213, 247, 263, psychology of, 73, 75, 76 270–1 Chartism, 49, 166, 168 Diderot, Denis, 14, 114, 116, 118, 219 cinema. See film domestic melodrama, 15, 21–2, 25, class, 3, 20, 54–7, 63, 69, 75, 76, 88, 117, 61–77, 163 163–74, 193–4, 216, 247 ‘comedic interface’ in, 70–1 aristocratic depiction in melodrama, 16, 55, ‘domestication’ of melodrama, 20 166, 168–9, 172 ‘interesting’ as a term in, 62–3 melodramatic vision of social order, after mid-century, 75–7 167–74, 179, 184 architecture of the home in, 73–4 middle-class absence and visibility, 75, as conclusion of melodrama’s first phase of 168–9, 174 historical development, 22 working-class heroes, 169–70 familial relations in, 64–5, 67–9, 247–51, working-class stereotypes, 173–4 258–60 317 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09593-9 — The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama Edited by Carolyn Williams Index More Information index domestic melodrama (cont.) film, 5, 224–43, See also moving picture female characters in, 21, 67–8, melodrama 71–2, 150–3 continuities with the stage, 110, 141, 179, idealized space of ‘home’ in, 25, 61–2, 217, 224–5, 230–1 65–7, 250–1 development of early film melodrama, marital relations in, 72–3, 152–3, 225–36 258–60 explosion of feature-length film oscillation of domestication and melodramas, 236 melodramatization in, 61, 64 outdatedness of ‘film melodrama’ as a term Donne, W. B., 134–5 today, 245 Ashore and Afloat, 134–5 film studies, 5, 245, 246, 257–60 Drury Lane Theatre, 6, 16, 18, 19, 23, 24, fires, 134 34–5, 37, 43, 79, 80–1, 83, 139, 176, Fitzball, Edward, 26, 27, 51–2, 65, 87 182, 237 Flying Dutchman, The, 26, 52 Home Again! or, The Lieutenant’s earthquakes, 130–4 Daughters, 65, 69–70, 71, 72 Eastern Orientalist melodrama, 180–1, Inchcape Bell; or, The Dumb Sailor Boy, See also Orientalism The, 26, 213 economic distress melodrama, 15, 27–8, Pilot, The, 51–2 See also crime melodrama ‘fourth wall’, 123 Edison Company, 228, 240 France, 13–15, 17, 18, 20, 48, 49–50, 51, 95, Eisenstein, Sergei, 247 114, 179, 183, 302 Eliot, George, 209, 211, 216, 217, 219 French Revolution, 1, 2, 16, 17, 49, 114, 166, Emeljanow, Victor, 6 274, 279 emotion, theories of, 115–18, 120–1 Freud, Sigmund, 277–87 Empire, 3, 26, 90, 176–89, 192, 193, See also imperialist melodrama Gad, Urban, 233–4 domestication of empire by melodrama, Afgruden (The Abyss)(film), 233–4 184–6 Gaines, Jane M., 5, 245–60 melodramatic spectacle and, 176–7, 178, Gallagher, Catherine, 214–15 181, 182–3 Gamer, Michael, 31–45 role of melodrama in forging imperial Garrick, David, 114, 115–16, 119 subjects, 176–9, 182–3, 189 gender, 3–4, 61, 75, 76, 147–61, 228, 247, enclosure, 64, 66 257–60, See also masculinity, equestrian acts, 50, 86, 230 femininity extravaganza, 263–4 class and, 3, 150, 151–2, 154–5, 160 female protagonists in melodrama, 21, facial expression, 114, 116–18, 120–1, 71–2, 149–53, 236, 259–60 153, 216 transgender narratives, 296–8 family, 3, 21, 28, 48, 61, 65, 67–8, 171–2, women playwrights, 6, 156–61 214, 247–51, 258–60 Germany, 2, 17, 51, 95, 183 farce, 50 gesture, 112, 113–17, 120–1, 122–3, 153, Farley, Charles, 43 161, 216, 229, 230–1, 241, 279–80 Raymond and Agnes; or, The Castle of Gilbert, W. S., 59, 264, See also Sullivan, Lindenberg, 39–40 Arthur father, 67–8, 213 H.M.S. Pinafore, 59 relation to daughter in domestic Pirates of Penzance, The, 59 melodrama, 67–8, 72 Gledhill, Christine, 5, 61–77, 150, 251, féerie, 227, 263–4 258 femininity, 4, 72, 75, 149–50, 152–3, 214, Gothic drama, 2, 14, 63, 149–50, See also 258–9, See also gender Gothic melodrama ‘improper feminine’, 149–50 as containing roots of melodrama, 31, 33, feminist theory, 149–50, 247–51, 257–60 149–50 318 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09593-9 — The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama Edited by Carolyn Williams Index More Information Index role of music in, 32–3, 34–5, 41 Youth (co-authored with Paul Merritt), sonic innovations of, 36–8 176, 178 Gothic melodrama, 15, 16–18, 31–45, Haymarket Theatre, 6, 31, 79, 106 63–5, 179 Hays, Michael, 3 domestication of, 63–5 Herman, Henry, 130 importance to formation of later Claudian (co-authored with melodrama, 17, 149–50 W.