¹ Hibberd, Sarah, ed., Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama (Farnham: Ashgate 2011), 1 Google Scholar.

² Brooks, Peter, The Melodramatic Imagination (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995)Google Scholar. I would also point out that James Q. Davies's article “‘Melodramatic Possessions’: The Flying Dutchman, South Africa and the Imperial Stage, ca. 1830” (Opera Quarterly 21, no. 3 [Summer 2005]: 496–514) on the Adelphi Theatre's famous hit, Edward [Fitz-]Ball's The Flying Dutchman; or, The Phantom Ship (a key source for Wagner's opera), is indeed a “fascinating study” (Pisani 333n38), but not “of Fitzball's play in South Africa,” rather of that play's references to and evocation of colonial South Africa and the Cape. Davies's article is strongly recommended as accompanying reading to Pisani here.