0 a (type of) play in which emotions and the goodness or wickedness of the characters are exaggerated greatly -- เรื่องประโลมโลก
Some critics prefer the playwright’s earlier melodramas.
1 (an example of) behaviour/behavior similar to a play of this sort -- การแสดงอารมณ์เกินจริง
He makes a melodrama out of everything that happens.
But he also, like the anti-poor law cartoonists of the 1830s and 1840s, responds to a tradition of radical melodrama.
Yet as entertaining and quotable as all the melodrama is, the dry physiological voice is in the end more radical.
Finally, this move is also inspired by some recent accounts of melodrama by anthropologists.
Moreover, the puppet show presents an interesting and important contrast with the theatrical genre of melodrama.
Several films were in fact made of the most popular melodramas.
Deploying the common rhetoric of melodrama, the bill's opponents insisted that women were fragile creatures, the easy prey of libertines and seducers.
A hybrid of various strains within nineteenth-century fiction, the sensation genre reflects the influence of stage melodrama and prefigures crime and detective fiction.
Besides melodrama and dime-store romance, the novel is studded with nuggets of politically instructive detail.
