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MANITOU SPRINGS — After centuries of swashbuckling ribaldry, the art of melodrama is facing the possibility of a very unmelodramatic finale: tied to the railroad tracks like a damsel in distress, ...

Eric Bentley tried to break down the current "prejudice against melodrama" as he resumed his Charles Eliot Norton lectures last night. Though melodrama is accused of exaggerating emotions, he said, it ...