Significant People
How many children did Wilkie Collins have?
What is three?
Which one of London's most famous landmarks were installed in 1856?
What is Big Ben?
What was one of the most significant domestic melodramas of the early part of the 19th century?
What is Murder in the Red Barn?
What kind of theater did people in this era perform in?
What is Proscenium?
What's the main theme in Melodrama?
What is Good vs. Evil?
Who wrote, and directed The Dog of Montargis?
Who is Rene-Charles Guilbert de-Pixerecourt?
What event began with microorganisms that wiped out most of the potato crop on which 2/5ths of the Irish population relied?
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
What novel had the most famous line in melodrama "Dead! Dead! And never call me mother!"
What is East Lynne?
What lighting techniques were introduced during this time?
What is electrical and gas?
Where were Melodramas rooted from?
What is medieval mortality plays?
Who was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer?
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
What year did Queen Victoria come to the throne after the death of King William the IV?
What is 1837?
Where did the wealthy people usually sit in the theater?
What is the Viewing Box (Loge)?
What era is the 19th century also known as?
What is the Victorian Era?
Who was buried as a national hero in Paris in 1794, sixteen years after his death?
Who is Jean- Jacques Rousseau?
What was the series of murders in the city of White Chapel, London in 1888?
What is Jack the Ripper Murders.
What is a novel about the evils of slavery by American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
What is a theatrical device constructed below stage, then lifted to the height of the stage?
What is Elevator Stage?
What is Melodrama often confused with?
What is the Italian term, Melodramma?
When Wilkie leave school, what did he get an apprenticeship for?
What is a tea importer?
Who fought in the battle of Trafalgar in 1805?
Who is the United Kingdom, France and Spain?
What was written in 1823 by Fitzball that combined elements of domestic and sensational melodramas?
What is Murder at the Roadside Inn?
What theatrical device was constructed on a turn table and revolved before the audience?
What is the Revolving Stage?
What famous play is known as a tragedy but also a melodrama?
What is Romeo and Juliet?