melodrama Synonyms

footlights histrionics triteness love story idyll broadway dramatisation warmth vehicle vaudeville tragedy theatricals theater schmaltz morality play sob story stage show psychodrama playlet theatrics maudlinness maudlinism melodramatics gushiness emotionalness dramatics daytime drama soap opera spectacle soap show hysteria farce excitement emotivity emotion dramatization drama crisis comedy comedietta bathos ballet mawkishness melodrame monodrama serial sentimentality sentimentalism scene