The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Beatrix HesseSeries:Crime FilesTheme:Cultural Region/BritishPublish date:8/26/2015Pages:290
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781137463036ISBN-10:1137463031UPC:9781137463036Book Category:Drama, Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Theater, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, History & CriticismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.49Product ID:SCZA3CZKDH
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781137463036ISBN-10:1137463031UPC:9781137463036Book Category:Drama, Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Theater, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, History & CriticismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.49Product ID:SCZA3CZKDH
Beatrix Hesse is Professor of English/ Cultural and Media Studies, University of Passau, Germany. She is the author of Shakespeare's Comedies From a Pragmatic Communication Theory Approach (1998).
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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