The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century [electronic resource] /
Hesse, Beatrix.author.
This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Theater-History.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Theatre History.
British and Irish Literature.