Research Catalog

Title

Blood on the stage, 1950-1975 : milestone plays of crime, mystery, and detection : an annotated repertoire / Amnon Kabatchnik.

Author

Kabatchnik, Amnon, 1929-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

xix, 684 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Detective and mystery plays > History and criticism
• Detective and mystery plays > Stories, plots, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Guys and Dolls (1950) / Abe Burrows -- Anastasia (1951) / Marcelle Maurette -- Darkness at Noon (1951) / Sidney Kingsley -- Billy Budd (1951) / Robert Chapman -- A Pin to See the Peepshow (1951) / H. M. Harwood -- Stalag 17 (1951) / Edmond Trzcinski -- The Hollow (1951) / Agatha Christie -- Remains to Be Seen (1951) / Russel Crouse -- The Number (1951) / Arthur P. Carter -- Requiem for a Nun (1951) / William Faulkner -- The Chase (1952) / Horton Foote -- Dial "M" for Murder (1952) / Frederick Knott -- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1952) / Constance Cox -- Hanging Judge (1952) / Raymond Massey -- Gently Does It (1952) / Janet Green -- The Mousetrap (1952) / Agatha Christie -- The Crucible (1953) / Arthur Miller -- My 3 Angels (1953) / Bella Spewack -- Sherlock Holmes (1953) / Ouida Rathbone -- The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1953) / Herman Wouk
• Witness for the Prosecution (1953) / Agatha Christie -- Someone Waiting (1953) / Emlyn Williams -- Dead Pigeon (1953) / Lenard Kantor -- The Quare Fellow (1954) / Brendan Behan -- The Prisoner (1954) / Bridget Boland -- Meet a Body (1954) / Sidney Gilliat -- Murder Story (1954) / Ludovic Kennedy -- Bad Seed (1954) / Maxwell Anderson -- Spider's Web (1954) / Agatha Christie -- Inherit the Wind (1955) / Robert E. Lee -- The Desperate Hours (1955) / Joseph Hayes -- The Whole Truth (1955) / Philip Mackie -- The Chalk Garden (1955) / Enid Bagnold -- A Hatful of Rain (1955) / Michael V. Gazzo -- The Visit (1956) / Friedrich Duerrenmatt -- Time Limit! (1956) / Henry Denker -- The Ponder Heart (1956) / Jerome Chodorov -- Towards Zero (1956) / Agatha Christie -- Speaking of Murder (1956) / William Roos -- The Hidden River (1957) / Augustus Goetz -- The Potting Shed (1957) / Graham Greene -- West Side Story (1957) / Stephen Sondheim
• Monique (1957) / Michael Blankfort -- Compulsion (1957) / Meyer Levin -- Murder Is My Business (1958) / James Reach -- Jane Eyre (1958) / Huntington Hartford -- Verdict (1958) / Agatha Christie -- The Unexpected Guest (1958) / Agatha Christie -- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1958) / Bertolt Brecht -- The Hostage (1958) / Brendan Behan -- Cue for Passion (1958) / Elmer Rice -- The Gazebo (1958) / Alec Coppel -- Rashomon (1959) / Michael Kanin -- Redhead (1959) / Dorothy Fields -- Frankenstein: The Gift of Fire (1959) / David Campton -- The Aspern Papers (1959) / Michael Redgrave -- The Gang's All Here (1959) / Robert E. Lee -- Golden Fleecing (1959) / Lorenzo Semple Jr. -- A Clean Kill (1959) / Michael Gilbert -- The Blacks (1959) / Jean Genet -- The Andersonville Trial (1959) / Saul Levitt -- The Deadly Game (1960) / James Yaffe -- Go Back for Murder (1960) / Agatha Christie -- The Best Man (1960) / Gore Vidal
• Oliver! (1960) / Lionel Bart -- Settled out of Court (1960) / Henry Cecil -- Advise and Consent (1960) / Loring Mandel -- The Devil's Advocate (1961) / Dore Schary -- A Shot in the Dark (1961) / Marcel Achard -- Write Me a Murder (1961) / Frederick Knott -- Daughter of Silence (1961) / Morris L. West -- The Spiral Staircase (1962) / F. Andrew Leslie -- Sequel to a Verdict (1962) / Philip Dunning -- Prescription: Murder (1962) / Richard Levinson -- The Physicists (1962) / Friedrich Duerrenmatt -- Calculated Risk (1962) / Joseph Hayes -- Rule of Three (1962) / Agatha Christie -- A Case of Libel (1963) / Henry Denker -- The Murder of Maria Marten, or The Red Barn (1963) / Brian J. Burton -- Hostile Witness (1964) / Jack Roffey -- Blues for Mr. Charlie (1964) / James Baldwin -- In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1964) / Heinar Kipphardt -- Home Is the Hunter (1964) / Helen MacInnes -- East Lynne, or Lady Isabel's Shame (1965) / Brian J. Burton
• Baker Street (1965) / Raymond Jessel -- Catch Me If You Can (1965) / Willie Gilbert -- Frankenstein (1965) / The Living Theatre Ensemble -- The Playroom (1965) / Mary Drayton -- Wait until Dark (1966) / Frederick Knott -- It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman (1966) / Robert Benton -- We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1966) / Hugh Wheeler -- Loot (1966) / Joe Orton -- Don't Drink the Water (1966) / Woody Allen -- Seven Days in May (1966) / Kristin Sergel -- A Case for Mason (1967) / William McCleery -- Fortune and Men's Eyes (1967) / John Herbert -- The Man in the Glass Booth (1967) / Robert Shaw -- The Real Inspector Hound (1968) / Tom Stoppard -- Conduct Unbecoming (1969) / Barry England -- Dracula, Baby (1970) / Clare Strauch -- Sleuth (1970) / Anthony Shaffer -- Child's Play (1970) / Robert Marasco -- The White House Murder Case (1970) / Jules Feiffer -- Inquest (1970) / Donald Freed -- Count Dracula (1971) / Ted Tiller -- The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1971) / Saul Levitt
• Suddenly at Home (1971) / Francis Durbridge -- Something's Afoot (1972) / Robert Gerlach -- Night Watch (1972) / Lucille Fletcher -- Fiddlers Three (1972) / Agatha Christie -- Lady Audley's Secret (1972) / Douglas Seale -- Dracula (1973) / Crane Johnson -- Equus (1973) / Peter Shaffer -- Short Eyes (1974) / Miguel Pinero -- Sherlock's Last Case (1974) / Charles Marowitz -- Frankenstein (1974) / Tim Kelly -- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1975) / John Osborne -- Murderer (1975) / Anthony Shaffer -- Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of the Sign of the Four (1975) / Dennis Rosa -- Murder among Friends (1975) / Bob Barry -- The Return of A. J. Raffles (1975) / Graham Greene -- Appendix A Deadly Poison -- Appendix B Twentieth-Century Courtroom Dramas -- Appendix C Twentieth-Century Death-Row Plays -- Appendix D Children in Peril.

Call Number

MWET 13-2316

ISBN

• 9780810877832 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 081087783X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010047558

OCLC

682920839

Author

Kabatchnik, Amnon, 1929-

Title

Blood on the stage, 1950-1975 : milestone plays of crime, mystery, and detection : an annotated repertoire / Amnon Kabatchnik.

Imprint

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

MWET 13-2316