The Real Inspector Hound

The first convention relates to the crime itself. Usually, the audience is presented with the crime, which is the crux of the plot and forms the basis of the investigation that follows. Subplots are often interwoven into the main storyline. In The Real Inspector Hound, Stoppard follows this convention by presenting the murder of Higgs, Simon Gascoyne and Birdboot. Similarly, this play is typical of the genre through its use of subplots and "red herrings". In this play the incident where Felicity discovers that Simon is disloyal, and threatens to kill him is an example of the above technique. At a plot level, Stoppard conforms to this convention through his presentatio

In The Real Inspector Hound, we also have a play outside a play. There is the "world" of the theatre, containing Birdboot and Moon, and the "world" of the play on stage. These two worlds are eventually combined when Birdboot and Moon accidentally get caught up in the play on stage. This eventually leads to the fusing of the previously separate storylines into one, which in turn relates to the rest of the play. Stoppard has successfully adhered to the convention of a detailed setting by providing a "closed" one, in which the characters within it are all suspects and can't escape the murderer

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