Melodramat – największa hybrydyczna struktura teatralno-dramatyczna XIX wieku
Melodrama – the Most Extensive Hybrid Theatrical-Dramatical Structure of the 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: In the Polish academic context, melodrama is as fascinating, as it is underrepresented a phenomenon. This is mostly because melodrama’s roots are theatrical; a reason why, within the literary drama bounds, the genre has been considered a hybrid since the Antiquity. This article aims both at demonstrating the complex process of melodrama shaping, one which involves its multigeneric inspirations, and presenting its hybrid structure as well as the direction in which it is evolving. Melodrama’s explicit emotionalism, multistylistic construction and dynamism, resulting from the genre’s both social and moralistic provenance, has determined not only its traditional reception, but also audiences’s involvement in the its creation. This text has been primarily based on the French melodrama; however, it, too, takes into consideration (to a limited degree though) the presence of the genre in the national dramaturgies: English, German, Austrian, and Polish.

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