English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Beatrix Hesse
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2015
• EAN: 9781137463036
• ISBN: 978-1-137-46303-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Crime Files; Crime Files
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Europa, Theaterwissenschaft, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Theatre Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Geschichte der darstellenden Künste, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy