Shakespearean allusion in crime fiction: DCI Shakespeare
- Submitting institution
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Sheffield Hallam University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 3111
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137538741
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Research for this entailed trawling c. 250 detective stories for references to Shakespeare and engaging with the history of editions, theatre productions and criticism to understand what Shakespeare would have looked like to the authors of these books. It also required tracing the wider cultural presence of some plays (most notably A Midsummer Night’s Dream) across a range of genres, adaptations, and appropriations on screen as well as in fiction, and then synthesising findings to construct and nuance an argument that Shakespeare is a central presence in detective fiction but that allusions to different plays work in different ways.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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