Definition of Melodramatists

1. Noun. (plural of melodramatist) ¹

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Definition of Melodramatists

1. melodramatist [n] - See also: melodramatist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Melodramatists

melodizer
melodizers
melodizes
melodizing
melodrama
melodramas
melodramata
melodramatic
melodramatically
melodramatics
melodramatise
melodramatised
melodramatises
melodramatising
melodramatist
melodramatists (current term)
melodramatization
melodramatizations
melodramatize
melodramatized
melodramatizes
melodramatizing
melodrame
melodrames
melody
melody pipe
melodyless
melodylike
meloe
melograph

Literary usage of Melodramatists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"Clearly the melodramatists are dissembling. The Extravagant Travesty plays two hours and three- quarters, and is therefore about two hours too long. ..."

2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"Melodrama of this type began to fail, and the melodramatists were drawn towards work of a different kind. But the breathless stimulation, excitement, ..."

3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"Title-page of Dekker and Middleton's "Roaring Girle, ' 1611 melodramatists of the blood-curdling type, little interested in the sane development of a plot ..."

4. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"Kyd's Spanish Tragedy was the standard play in the class : succeeding melodramatists could only rack their inventions for scenes and incidents of horror ..."

5. The American Dramatist by Montrose Jonas Moses (1917)
"Though they would be the first to disclaim it, they are nothing more than melodramatists, not in the exaggerated sense of Eighth Avenue, ..."

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