Staging Detection: From Hawkshaw to Holmes

ISBN-13: 9780367632649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 162 str.

Isabel Stowell-Kaplan

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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