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: | 9781349575176 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 2013 |
| Author: | Beatrix Hesse |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 290 pages |
| Series: | Crime Files |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Theatre studies Literature: history and criticism Cultural studies Society and culture: general |