The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 The Body in the Library and the Body on Stage
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   Chapter 2 From Victorian Melodrama to the End of the Twenties
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   Chapter 3 From the 1930s to the End of World War II
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   Chapter 4 From the End of World War II to 1955
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   Chapter 5 From 1956 to the End of the Sixties
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   Chapter 6 From Sleuth to In-Yer-Face Theatre
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   Chapter 7 Settings and Stage Sets
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   Chapter 8 Timing and Plot “Construction”
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    Chapter 9 Dramatic Characters
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    Chapter 10 Violence, Crime and Punishment
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    Chapter 11 Genre, Generic Development and Subgenres
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    Chapter 12 Stage Adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Detective Stories
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    Chapter 13 Other Types of Detective Fiction Adapted for the Stage
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    Chapter 14 Coda: The Twentieth-Century English Crime Play — A View from 2015