The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century
Author: Beatrix Hesse
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-08-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113746304X


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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.


The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Beatrix Hesse
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-02 - Publisher: Springer

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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 fi
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Pages: 300
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Language: en
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Elemental, stark and with a ruthless logic, 'The Crime of the Twenty-First Century' is a play about a devastated, desperate world, about the possibility of soci
The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Beatrix Hesse
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-02 - Publisher: Springer

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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 fi