2016年10月26日 · The faithful servant is the accomplice of the hero. However, this character is also often portrayed as clumsy and idiotic. He is not as brave, courageous or handsome as the hero. This character often provides comic relief to the audience, just like the villain’s accomplice.

MAIDSERVANT: female, heroine’s loyal servant, flirtatious (status = lower class) The clown/servants are usually (but not always) comic relief characters. They are very bubbly and acts in a...

2015年11月11日 · Stock characters in melodrama, like their earlier Greek, Roman and Italian counterparts, are types rather than fully-fleshed characters and appear over and over again in different stories. These characters serve the primary plot of nearly every melodrama – a villain schemes to commit evil on the hero, heroine or other good characters and the ...

Melodrama characters were not meant to be particularly life-like, instead they were intended to have identifiable types of personalities – these types were referred to as ‘stock characters’ and are known as • Heroes - handsome, strong, brave, honest and reliable. Status - …

What does Melodrama mean? A drama characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and interpersonal conflicts. − Melo - “Music” − Drama - “Drama” Only two Theatres in London allowed to present dramas. − Covent Garden, Drury Lane

2020年3月6日 · The Victorian stage melodrama featured six stock characters: the hero, the villain, the heroine, an aged parent, a sidekick and a servant of the aged parent engaged in a sensational plot featuring themes of love and murder.

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Melodramatic means drama with music. Melodrama is essentially visual theatre, and its characteristics are simple:-stereotypical characters-sensational stage effects -plot dominating characteristics

The word Melodrama comes from melody and drama – there is a key link to music. The actors would act in an over the top fashion showing their characters and emotions clearly according to the tone of the music. For example fast, scary music would mean the characters would move

2020年1月4日 · The comic servant. As a plot device to speed up the conclusion, according to Michael Booth in English Melodrama , Typically this comic servant or companion instantly saw through the villain, put the situation in perspective, and made light of the high standards of conduct by which other characters feel inconveniently bound.