Antedating of "Melodrama"

[Fred Shapiro]

melodrama (OED3 1797)

1733 Ailesbury, Charles Bruce, Earl of. A catalogue of the books of the
Right Honourable Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill 125 (Eighteenth
Century Collections Online)  Teuzzone.  Melo-Drama. ... Ib. 1727.

Fred Shapiro


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