The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

von: Beatrix Hesse

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

ISBN: 9781137463043 , 290 Seiten

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The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century


 

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.