Isabel Stowell-Kaplan

Staging Detection

From Hawkshaw to Holmes

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780367632649
• ISBN-10: 0367632640
• Artikelnr.: 62228377

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