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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.

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).
Release date NZ
August 26th, 2015
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Edition
1st ed. 2015
Illustrations
1 Illustrations, black and white; VI, 290 p. 1 illus.
Pages
290
Dimensions
140x216x22
ISBN-13
9781137463036
Product ID
23053885

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