The might and glory of the city celebrated – London’s theatricality in Peter Ackroyd’s The Clerkenwell Tales
Together with intertextuality, criminality, occultism and psychogeography, theatre culture and urban theatricality represent a cornerstone of Peter Ackroyd’s conception of London. The motif or theme of theatricality appears in all his London novels, most notably in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem...
Main Author: | Petr Chalupský |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Pardubice
2013-12-01
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Series: | American and British Studies Annual |
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Online Access: | https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2224 |
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