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The role of mute characters and muteness in the first English melodramas

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14640%2F23%3A00130293" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14640/23:00130293 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://pdf.uhk.cz/hkjas/pi/pi_8-1-2021.php" target="_blank" >http://pdf.uhk.cz/hkjas/pi/pi_8-1-2021.php</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The role of mute characters and muteness in the first English melodramas

  • Original language description

    Abstract: The form of melodrama arrived in England from France at the beginning of the nineteenth century and soon became a well-established and popular genre among many strata of society. Originally a working-class entertainment, it flourished within the aesthetic limits of the Licensing Act with its emphasis on music, pantomime and gesture, rather that the spoken word. The form was inaugurated in England by Thomas Holcroft who adapted René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt’s melodrama Coelina; ou, l'enfant du mystère as A Tale of Mystery in 1802. In this play, following the example of Pixérécourt, Holcroft introduced the mute character Francisco, whose tragic fate and visual means of communication excited a strong emotional response from the audience. The paper discusses the historical and social conditions that enabled the spread and vogue for the genre, and reasons why muteness became a language of the stage. Then, it analyses the first English melodrama and shows how the different manifestation of muteness in the form of postures, gestures, silent tableaux and music intensified the theatrical appeal of the play. Finally, it is argued that the legacy of the first melodrama reverberated in the English theatre of the nineteenth century and the first silent films, which is illustrated by the example of the first adaptation of Frankenstein with its mute Creature.

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  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60204 - General literature studies

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

  • ISSN

    2336-3347

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    2022

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    1-2

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    9

  • Pages from-to

    81-89

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database