Staging Detection: From Hawkshaw to Holmes - Paperback

by Isabel Stowell-Kaplan (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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