TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hesse,Beatrix
TI  - The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century
T2  - Crime Files Series
SN  - 9781137463043
AV  - PN45-57 
U1  - 822.052709 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK
KW  - Detective and mystery plays, English
KW  - English drama
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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