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Adelphi|əˈdɛlfɪ|
The name of a group of buildings in London between the Strand and the Thames, laid out by the four brothers, James, John, Robert, and William Adam (see Adam2) and hence called Adelphi (Gr. ἀδελϕοί brothers); the name of the theatre in the vicinity of these buildings, at which a certain type of melodrama was prevalent c 1882–1900, and so allusively.
1894Queen 17 Mar. 432/1 Those who expected that the advent of a new Adelphi dramatist would be marked by a new development in Adelphi drama. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 517/1 The ‘Adelphi’ as opposed to the ‘Drury Lane’ type of drama has recently died out in the West End. 1903Chesterton R. Browning ii. 45 A whiff from an Adelphi melodrama. 1928― Generally Speaking 231 His trouble cannot have been as deep as hell and as shallow as an Adelphi play. |