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.
| ISBN: | 9781137463043 |
| Publication date: | 2nd August 2015 |
| Author: | Hesse, Beatrix |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |