The English Crime Play In The Twentieth Century (Crime Files)

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.

• | Author: Beatrix Hesse
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 26, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137463031
• | ISBN-13: 9781137463036