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    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution"
    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution"
    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution"
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    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution"

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    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393159
    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution"

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      A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution" - Gale

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      Witness for the Prosecution

      Agatha Christie

      1953

      Introduction

      Witness for the Prosecution is one of the most famous and most frequently performed plays of the twentieth century. It was written by Agatha Christie, whose many novels made her the bestselling author of modern times, second in sales only to William Shakespeare and the Bible.

      Like many of Christie's works, the play presents a murder mystery being played out among the upper class of Great Britain. The story revolves around the trial of Leonard Vole, a charming young man accused of murdering Miss Emily French, a single, wealthy woman considerably older than he. Vole claims that he and Miss French were nothing more than friends; his wife testifies that he was home when the murder took place; evidence implies that the killing was done by robbers. Soon, however, the robbery story falls apart, and the wife, on the witness stand, testifies that she lied to the investigators. Then new evidence shows that she might be lying when she says she was lying. Vole's defense team, led by the quirky intellectual Sir Wilfrid Robarts, has trouble keeping up with the twists in the story, as they and the audience try to discern truth from illusion.

      Christie originally wrote Witness for the Prosecution as a short story called Traitor Hands, which was published in 1925. After the success of her play The Mousetrap, which started in London's West End in 1952 and is still running, she quickly adapted Traitor Hands to Witness for the Prosecution, which opened in London in 1953 and then at Henry Miller's Theater in New York in December of 1954. It had an impressive run of 645 performances and won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play and Tony Awards for its lead actors. The text of Witness for the Prosecution is available in The Mousetrap and Other Plays, published by Dodd, Meade in 1978. That book is still available, currently published by NAL/ Dutton, and the play is also available by itself in paperback form from Samuel French.

      Author Biography

      Christie was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller on September 15, 1890, in Devon, England. She was homeschooled, mostly by her Americanborn father until his death when she was eleven. She and her mother were very close. In 1914, at age twenty-four, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, a pilot with England's Royal Flying Corps. During World War I she served as nurse in a local hospital. Her first published novel, 1920's The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced the character of Hercule Poirot, a Belgian detective who would appear in thirty-three of her novels and fifty of her short stories.

      Christie suffered a mental calamity in 1926: her mother died that year, and she found out that her husband was involved with another woman. She disappeared for eleven days, sparking a nationwide police manhunt and creating a mystery about her whereabouts

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