Boulevard du Crime

Japanese: Boulevard du Crime(英語表記)BoulevardduCrime
Boulevard du Crime

…In most classical plays, the title represents the main character and the location is limited to one, whereas melodramas are characterized by various changes in devices that show local color. Thus, in the early 19th century, when the representative melodrama writer Gilbert de Pixérécourt appeared, melodramas reached their zenith in the theaters crowded on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, and the content of the plays described below gave the Boulevard du Temple the nickname Boulevard du Crime. The content of melodramas was heavily influenced by the gothic romances and horror novels that were popular at the time (in France, these novels were called roman noir (dark novels)). …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Boulevard du Crime" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…古典劇のほとんどでは,題名が劇中の主人公を表し,場所は一つに限定されているのに対して,メロドラマでは地方色を表すさまざまな装置の変化が特徴的である。こうして19世紀初頭,代表的なメロドラマ作者ギルベール・ド・ピクセレクールが現れるに及んで,メロドラマは,パリのタンプル大通りに密集する劇場で全盛を極め,以下に述べるようなその演目の内容から,タンプル大通りには〈犯罪大通りBoulevard du Crime〉という別名も生まれた。 メロドラマの内容としては,当時流行したゴシック・ロマンスや怪奇小説の影響が大きい(フランスではこれらの小説は〈ロマン・ノアール〉(暗黒小説)と呼ばれた)。…

※「Boulevard du Crime」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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