TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hopkins,Lisa
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction: DCI Shakespeare 
T2  - Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
SN  - 9781137538758(ebook:PDF)
U1  - 809 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK(Imprint)
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Literature, Modern-20th century
KW  - British literature
KW  - America-Literatures
N1  - Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Wild Justice: Mercy, Revenge and the Detective -- 2. Who Owns the Wood? Appropriating A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 3. Border Patrol: Shakespearean Allusions and Social and National Identities -- 4. Stealing Shakespeare: Detective Fiction and Cultural Value -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53875-8
ER  -