Isabel Stowell-Kaplan

Staging Detection (eBook, ePUB)

From Hawkshaw to Holmes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. This bookforegrounds the role of the stage detective in shaping important theatrical modes of the period, from popular melodrama to society comedy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000418835
• Artikelnr.: 62129991

Autorenporträt

Isabel Stowell-Kaplan is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'But then until lately we have known little of detectives'
1 'Enter Hawkshaw': Performing Detection
2 'Women's Work': Female Detectives on the Britannia Stage
3 Professionals of the Theatre: The Detective
4 Mediating Melodrama and Envisioning Justice: Staging Sergeant Cuff
5 'A tell-tale bracelet': The Detective and the Dandy
Afterword

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Introduction: 'But then until lately we have known little of detectives'; 1 'Enter Hawkshaw': Performing Detection; 2 'Women's Work': Female Detectives on the Britannia Stage; 3 Professionals of the Theatre: The Detective; 4 Mediating Melodrama and Envisioning Justice: Staging Sergeant Cuff; 5 'A tell-tale bracelet': The Detective and the Dandy; Afterword