The Shaughraun is a melodramatic play written by Irish playwright Dion Boucicault.

It was based on a melodramatic play by Frank Stayton.

August von Kotzebue's Misanthropy and Repentance (1789) is often considered the first melodramatic play.

Then there was to be a play, most heart-rending and melodramatic, with villains and heroes and a heroine who was very hardly used.

It was amusing to see him engaged in some melodramatic play like this.

Ms. Bub is a delightful comedic actress, but in this melodramatic play she seems overdone and out of place.

Felix reached down and picked up his book, a cheap printed manuscript of one of Dedef Sierck's more melodramatic plays.

One of Jim Blakeston's first steps to win Liza's heart is to go to a melodramatic play with her on Saturday night.

The Colleen Bawn is a melodramatic play by Dion Boucicault.

Fond of the more melodramatic plays.