The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century
Author:   Beatrix Hesse
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
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Pages:   290
Publication Date:   26 August 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Beatrix Hesse
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.777kg
ISBN:  

9781137463036


ISBN 10:   1137463031
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   26 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. The Body in the Library and the Body on Stage 2. From Victorian Melodrama to the End of the Twenties 3. From the 1930s to the End of WW II 4. From the End of WW II to 1955 5. From 1956 to the End of the Sixties 6. From Sleuth to In-Yer-Face Theatre 7. Settings and Stage Sets 8. Timing and Plot 'Construction' 9. Dramatic Characters 10. Violence, Crime and Punishment 11. Genre, Generic Development and Subgenres 12. Stage Adaptations of Agatha Christie's Detective Stories 13. Other Types of Detective Fiction Adapted for the Stage 14. Coda: The 20th-Century English Crime Play – A View from 2015 Bibliography: The Plays Bibliography: Works Cited Index

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Beatrix Hesse is Professor of English/ Cultural and Media Studies, University of Passau, Germany. She is the author of Shakespeare's Comedies From a Pragmatic Communication Theory Approach (1998).

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