Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hamlet is the most popular of all of Shakespeare's plays, and managers are always sure of filling their theatres when they offer it for presentation. This is not wonderful, for the work is a melodrama pure and simple. It is a "tragedy of blood," and is a play in which action is the predominant feature. The plots and conspiracies; the play within a play; Hamlet's journey to England and return; the madness of Orphelia; all are full of action, and form a potent attraction for the popular mind. Throughout the play there is a bleak, cold humor, which...
...better presentation, with its beautiful scenery, gorgeous costumes and brilliant transformations. The piece has been slightly changed since its last presentation here, and besides, new features have been added by music and ballet. The principal parts are all well sustained. Miss Ida Mule as Cinderella. is always welcome. The melodrama continues for two weeks...
Silver Falls."Silver Falls," a new romantic play by Simms and Pettitt, was presented last evening for the first time at the Boston Theatre. The play is of that prevalent type of melodrama in which the last act always sees virtue triumphant and vice punished. The leading part of "Eric Normanhurst" is fairly well taken by William Redmund...
Last evening, Frohmann's production of "The Prince and the Pauper," dramatized from Mark Twain's book of that name, was begun at the Hollis St. theatre. The play is a very good one, and well-worked up. Perhaps, in parts, it savors too much of the melodrama; at any rate this seeming defect was made apparent at times by the poor work of several artists in the company. On the whole, however, the rest of the company furnish a good support for little Elsie Leslie who plays the title role in a very charming way. Her work...
...Arrant Knave.Stuart Robson and company began a two week's engagement at the Hollis St. Theatre last night in "An Arrant Knave." The play purports to be a mediaeval comedy, but it partakes more of the nature of melodrama than than of comedy, and melodrama of a conventional sort. The second act is real comedy and contains the brightest lines of the play; the other acts move heavily. Except in this second act Mr. Robson is afforded very little opportunity for effective work; it is impossible not to feel that in Chiqui the Knave he has found a part less...