The Mousetrap Essays and Criticism

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The Mousetrap | Essays and Criticism

• Critical Response to Christie's Play

  Metzger is a Ph.D. with an extensive background teaching drama. In this essay she assesses critical response to Christie's play and praises the writer's dramatic skills.

• Adam, Eve, and Agatha Christie: Detective Stories As Post-Darwinian Myths of Original Sin

  In this excerpt, Wren-Lewis discusses Christie 's record-breaking play and offers some theories on the secret of its success.

• Quite a Nice Run

  Finding The Mousetrap to be conventional and often uninspired, Shorter assesses the play's lengthy theatrical run.

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