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The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century (Crime Files)
Beatrix Hesse
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Description for The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century (Crime Files)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Crime Files
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137463036
SKU
V9781137463036
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Ref
99-15
About Beatrix Hesse
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).
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