Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction

DCI Shakespeare

By:

Lisa Hopkins

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

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This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid. It also looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series, most notably Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and considers the special sub-genre of detective stories in which a lost Shakespeare play is found. It shows how Shakespeare facilitates discussions about what constitutes justice, what authorises the detective to track down the villain, who owns the countryside, national and social identities, and the question of how we measure cultural value.

Author Biography:

Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Society. She has published widely on Shakespeare, Marlowe and Ford.

Release date Australia

May 3rd, 2016

Author

Lisa Hopkins

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Edition

1st ed. 2016

Illustrations

VII, 204 p.

Pages

204

Series

Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

Dimensions

148x210x17

ISBN-13

9781137538741

Product ID

24541546

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