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Staging Detection - Isabel Stowell-Kaplan

Staging Detection

From Hawkshaw to Holmes
Buch | Hardcover
162 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-63264-9 (ISBN)
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Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. This bookforegrounds the role of the stage detective in shaping important theatrical modes of the period, from popular melodrama to society comedy.
Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. The first book to explore the productive intersections between detection and performance across a range of Victorian plays, Staging Detection foregrounds the role of the stage detective in shaping important theatrical modes of the period, from popular melodrama to society comedy.

Beginning in 1863 with Tom Taylor’s blockbuster play, The Ticket-of-Leave Man, the book criss-crosses London following the earliest performances of stage detectives. Centring the work of playwrights, novelists, critics and actors, from Sarah Lane and Horace Wigan to Wilkie Collins and Oscar Wilde, Staging Detection sheds new light on Victorian acting styles, furthers our understanding of melodrama, and resituates the famous Wildean dandy as a successor to the stage detective. Drawing on histories of masculinity and gender performance as well as developing scientific theory and nineteenth-century visual culture, Staging Detection shows how the earliest stage portrayals of the detective shaped broader Victorian debates concerning fraud, omniscience and earned authority.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre history, Victorian literature and popular culture – as well as anyone with an interest in the figure of the detective.

Isabel Stowell-Kaplan is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK.

Introduction: ‘But then until lately we have known little of detectives’; 1 ‘Enter Hawkshaw’: Performing Detection; 2 ‘Women’s Work’: Female Detectives on the Britannia Stage; 3 Professionals of the Theatre: The Detective; 4 Mediating Melodrama and Envisioning Justice: Staging Sergeant Cuff; 5 ‘A tell-tale bracelet’: The Detective and the Dandy; Afterword

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Zusatzinfo 7 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 476 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lektüren / Interpretationen
ISBN-10 0-367-63264-0 / 0367632640
ISBN-13 978-0-367-63264-9 / 9780367632649
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