melodramatize

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I do not know whether Ludovica was melodramatised.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

The introductory story is taken from the well-known tale of "The Sleeping Beauty," in "Mother Bunch's Fairy Tales," which had before been "melodramatised," but had not hitherto been taken for the groundwork of a Harlequinade.

From A History of Pantomime by Broadbent, R. J.