April 2, 2018

Shakespeare the Crime Author @CrimeReads @DwyerMurphy

Dwyer Murphy ranks some of Shakespeare's plays as crime fiction, noting that one can see Romeo and Juliet as "gritty urban crime" and Hamlet as a "private eye" drama. Number one on the list? The Scottish play, which is "outlaw noir"--"where morality and time have been turned upside down and a dark shadow has been cast over the land."

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