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The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Crime Files SeriesPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (291 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137463043
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The English Crime Play in the Twentieth CenturyDDC classification:
  • 822.052709
LOC classification:
  • PN45-57
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Body in the Library and the Body on Stage -- Part I: A History of the Crime Play -- 2 From Victorian Melodrama to the End of the Twenties -- 3 From the 1930s to the End of World War II -- 4 From the End of World War II to 1955 -- 5 From 1956 to the End of the Sixties -- 6 From Sleuth to In-Yer-Face Theatre -- Part II: A Poetics of the Crime Play -- 7 Settings and Stage Sets -- 8 Timing and Plot "Construction" -- 9 Dramatic Characters -- 10 Violence, Crime and Punishment -- 11 Genre, Generic Development and Subgenres -- Part III: The Crime Play and Detective Fiction -- 12 Stage Adaptations of Agatha Christie's Detective Stories -- 13 Other Types of Detective Fiction Adapted for the Stage -- Coda: The Twentieth-Century English Crime Play - A View from 2015 -- Notes -- Bibliography: The Plays -- Bibliography: Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Body in the Library and the Body on Stage -- Part I: A History of the Crime Play -- 2 From Victorian Melodrama to the End of the Twenties -- 3 From the 1930s to the End of World War II -- 4 From the End of World War II to 1955 -- 5 From 1956 to the End of the Sixties -- 6 From Sleuth to In-Yer-Face Theatre -- Part II: A Poetics of the Crime Play -- 7 Settings and Stage Sets -- 8 Timing and Plot "Construction" -- 9 Dramatic Characters -- 10 Violence, Crime and Punishment -- 11 Genre, Generic Development and Subgenres -- Part III: The Crime Play and Detective Fiction -- 12 Stage Adaptations of Agatha Christie's Detective Stories -- 13 Other Types of Detective Fiction Adapted for the Stage -- Coda: The Twentieth-Century English Crime Play - A View from 2015 -- Notes -- Bibliography: The Plays -- Bibliography: Works Cited -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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