172 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
172 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
172 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. The first book to explore the productive intersections between detection and performance across a range of Victorian plays, Staging Detection foregrounds the role of the stage detective in shaping important theatrical modes of the period, from popular melodrama to society comedy.... Read more
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
Biography
Isabel Stowell-Kaplan is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK.
