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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.
Beginning in 1863 with Tom Taylor's blockbuster play, The
Ticket-of-Leave Man, the book criss-crosses London following the
earliest performances of stage detectives. Centring the work of
playwrights, novelists, critics and actors, from Sarah Lane and
Horace Wigan to Wilkie Collins and Oscar Wilde, Staging Detection
sheds new light on Victorian acting styles, furthers our
understanding of melodrama, and resituates the famous Wildean dandy
as a successor to the stage detective. Drawing on histories of
masculinity and gender performance as well as developing scientific
theory and nineteenth-century visual culture, Staging Detection
shows how the earliest stage portrayals of the detective shaped
broader Victorian debates concerning fraud, omniscience and earned
authority. This book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of theatre history, Victorian literature and popular
culture - as well as anyone with an interest in the figure of the
detective.
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.
Beginning in 1863 with Tom Taylor's blockbuster play, The
Ticket-of-Leave Man, the book criss-crosses London following the
earliest performances of stage detectives. Centring the work of
playwrights, novelists, critics and actors, from Sarah Lane and
Horace Wigan to Wilkie Collins and Oscar Wilde, Staging Detection
sheds new light on Victorian acting styles, furthers our
understanding of melodrama, and resituates the famous Wildean dandy
as a successor to the stage detective. Drawing on histories of
masculinity and gender performance as well as developing scientific
theory and nineteenth-century visual culture, Staging Detection
shows how the earliest stage portrayals of the detective shaped
broader Victorian debates concerning fraud, omniscience and earned
authority. This book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of theatre history, Victorian literature and popular
culture - as well as anyone with an interest in the figure of the
detective.
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