The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-46303-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4777 g

Reihe: 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hesse, Beatrix

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).