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The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

Beatrix Hesse (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2014 | 2015 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-57517-6 (ISBN)

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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.

1. The Body in the Library and the Body on Stage 2. From Victorian Melodrama to the End of the Twenties3. From the 1930s to the End of WW II4. From the End of WW II to 19555. From 1956 to the End of the Sixties6. From Sleuth to In-Yer-Face Theatre7. Settings and Stage Sets8. Timing and Plot 'Construction'9. Dramatic Characters10. Violence, Crime and Punishment11. Genre, Generic Development and Subgenres12. Stage Adaptations of Agatha Christie's Detective Stories13. Other Types of Detective Fiction Adapted for the Stage14. Coda: The 20th-Century English Crime Play – A View from 2015Bibliography: The PlaysBibliography: Works CitedIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Crime Files
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Agatha Christie • Crime plays • Twentieth-century Drama
ISBN-10	1-349-57517-8 / 1349575178
ISBN-13	978-1-349-57517-6 / 9781349575176
Zustand	Neuware