Beatrix Hesse
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2015
9781137463036
The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century
Specificaties
Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
e druk, 2015
ISBN13: 9781137463036
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Crime Files
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781137463036
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hoofdrubriek:Woordenboeken en taal
Serie:Crime Files
Inhoudsopgave
<p>1. The Body in the Library and the Body on Stage <br/>2. From Victorian Melodrama to the End of the Twenties<br/>3. From the 1930s to the End of WW II<br/>4. From the End of WW II to 1955<br/>5. From 1956 to the End of the Sixties<br/>6. From Sleuth to In-Yer-Face Theatre<br/>7. Settings and Stage Sets<br/>8. Timing and Plot 'Construction'<br/>9. Dramatic Characters<br/>10. Violence, Crime and Punishment<br/>11. Genre, Generic Development and Subgenres<br/>12. Stage Adaptations of Agatha Christie's Detective Stories<br/>13. Other Types of Detective Fiction Adapted for the Stage<br/>14. Coda: The 20th-Century English Crime Play – A View from 2015<br/>Bibliography: The Plays<br/>Bibliography: Works Cited<br/>Index<br/></p>