TY - GEN digital ID - 131560038 TI - Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction : DCI Shakespeare PY - 2016 SN - 9781137538758 PB - London Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - American literature KW - English literature KW - Literature KW - Amerindian literature KW - detectiveromans KW - fantasy KW - literatuur KW - Renaissance KW - Amerikaanse cultuur KW - Engelse literatuur KW - Sayers, Dorothy L. KW - Christie, Agatha KW - Shakespeare, William KW - McDermid, Val KW - Atkinson, Kate KW - Hill, Regeinald KW - Allingham, Margery KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - Great Britain KW - Ireland KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131560038 AB - 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. ER -