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Genre that had its heyday in the nineteenth century and is described as outwardly serious and embellished with spectacular staging and flamboyant dialogue?

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Melodrama is a genre of theater that is often defined as works that have a very serious tone to them and are made more interesting or entertaining because they are presented with grand staging and superfluous dialogue.
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