Author: Beatrix Hesse
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113746304X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book 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.