What are Victorian melodrama costumes?

a book written in the Victorian era which is very melodramatic (e.g over the top storylines), they are often about murders or treasure hunts, an author which is renowned for this is Charles Dickens, see the short story Sykes and Nancy, for a good example of this. actually, i think you'll find that Victorian Melodrama was and still is also a type of play

Has a friend called bill and he went to the shop and he bought a chocloate bar and ate it and he said i like chocolate so they shot him