A master of melodrama, now forgotten, but never more relevant. A rare production of Giacamo Meyerbeer’s cataclysmic opera “Le Prophète” at Bard SummerScape proves we live in a melodramatic age.

Dickens lived in the town house during the early years of his marriage to wife Catherine, completing The Pickwick Papers and writing Oliver Twist in the rented property in Holborn, central London ...

Book lovers have a rare opportunity to buy a travel writing desk and silverware set once owned by the British writer Charles Dickens. Both items are up for grabs at a sale organized by RR Auctions ...

Dickens is the prince of melodrama, and Alleluia for that. If Pip and the Gargerys and Magwitch did not sufficiently reveal Dickens’s abounding creativity, then there are the riches of Miss ...

When Dickens died in 1870, ... Be assured there’s a rousing, happy ending, and I’m not giving anything away by writing that. This is melodrama, and artifice reigns.

In February of 1824, Charles Dickens watched in anguish as his father was arrested for debt and sent to the Marshalsea prison, just south of the Thames, in London. “I really believed at the time ...

ETHEL BARRYMORE IN WESTERN MELODRAMA; Burne-Jones Modernity in Bret Harte and Dickens. MINERS FROM OLD KENT ROAD A Cockney Version of Bowery Emotions Pleases an Amiable Audience. Share full article ...

Dickens is the prince of melodrama, and Alleluia for that. If Pip and the Gargerys and Magwitch did not sufficiently reveal Dickens's abounding creativity, then there are the riches of Miss ...