The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover
The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover
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by Beatrix Hesse (Author)
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 Biography
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).
