Beatrix Hesse

Gebundenes Buch

The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Crime Files
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-46303-6
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781137463036
• ISBN-10: 1137463031
• Artikelnr.: 42801701