The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama ed. by Carolyn Williams, and: Melodrama Unbound: Across History, Media, and National Cultures ed. by Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams (review)

The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama and Melodrama Unbound are excellent exemplars of a recent turn in melodrama studies toward transmedial, transnational, and trans-historical approaches. The two edited volumes are essential reading for melodrama scholars working in the fields of theatre, film, television, gender studies, and musicology.