The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century
Auteur: Beatrix Hesse
Nombre de pages: 290 pages
ISBN: 113746304X, 9781137463043
Edition: Springer
Date de publication: Springer
Description: 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.