Crime Files

Hesse, Beatrix

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-08-26

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137463036

DOI: 10.1057/9781137463043

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 290