Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage
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Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage

Post-Millennial Adaptations in British Theatre

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eBook - PDF

Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage

Post-Millennial Adaptations in British Theatre

About this book

This book investigates the development of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in British theatre since the turn of the millennium. Sherlock Holmes has become a cultural phenomenon all over again in the twenty-first century, as a result of the television series Sherlock and Elementary, and films like Mr Holmes and the Guy Ritchie franchise starring Robert Downey Jr. In the light of these new interpretations, British theatre has produced timely and topical responses to developments in the screen Sherlocks' stories. Moreover, stage Sherlocks of the last three decades have often anticipated the knowing, metafictional tropes employed by screen adaptations. This study traces the recent history of Sherlock Holmes in the theatre, about which very little has been written for an academic readership. It argues that the world of Sherlock Holmes is conveyed in theatre by a variety of games that activate new modes of audience engagement.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1 Introduction: Sherlock Holmes Belongs to Everyone
  4. Chapter 2 The Deductionist: Surveying the Character of Sherlock Holmes
  5. Chapter 3 The Homeless Network: Sherlock Holmes and Adaptation
  6. Chapter 4 The Game is Afoot: Hunting and Playing in Sherlockian Theatre
  7. Chapter 5 Playing ‘The Trick’
  8. Chapter 6 The Man on the Tor: Adapting The Hound of the Baskervilles
  9. Chapter 7 Collapsing the Frame: Acting, Deception and Metatheatre
  10. Chapter 8 Sherlock Holmes Checks His Privilege
  11. Chapter 9 Sherlock Holmes as Skeleton Key
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index