It is very interesting how the printing press and theatre very much so influenced each other. Do you believe this hold true today? Public opinion I believe is stronger than ever, especially amongst the youth. Do you think that we can make connections through different mediums that hold this same relationship just like theatre and the printing press?

When reading about how theatre had brought similar people and their ideas  together, it is really interesting to read about how the plays that were produced at the time, portrayed the ideas that were relevant to the setting of the era. Knowing this, are there any plays/movies/etc. that can possibly be portraying any issues or current events that we are facing today?

Eclipsed Stagenotes

It is funny to think that Melodramas still exist today. Although they seem to be so different from the 1800s, we can see and point out a lot of similarities. Melodrama adaptations are very common. Also, the stories have not changed much at all since they first started. This says a lot about our society today, how people react to these same situations, and how our emotions haven’t really outgrown these stories at all.

Term of Melodrama was started in French in 18centuries. And there are difference between 18th and 19th’s melodrama. What are different characteristics between two centuries’ melodrama, and what was the main factor for difference?

18th and 19th Century Actors

Muppet Melodrama

I’ve never knew what melodrama was until reading about it today. How has Melodrama changed over time from early theater to Modern Day Opera. Does melodrama exist in today’s society? Is it still used the same way as it was in early Society?

Why had melodrama mainly included more common people from the bourgeois than the previous play types that had usually included aristocrats and higher-level families and citizens?

The Melodrama looks like focus more event than developing the person’s character. It also looks like moral play like reward the good and punish the wicked. Why is it have this kind of structure? For vicarious pleasure?

What is it about philosophy and theater that makes the two concepts so closely related? Even if we look at their origins, they are often said to have come from the same place: Ancient Greece.