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The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century / by Beatrix Hesse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hesse, Beatrix, Author.
- Series:
- Crime Files, 2947-8359
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Theater--History.
- Theater.
- European literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Theatre History.
- European Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Theatre History.
- European Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137463036
- 9781137463043
- 113746304X
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