True crime, as a genre, dates back to a series of plays staged more than four centuries ago.

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This is the basic working principle of Elizabethan crime drama: the "truth" of what happened, conveyed in a bare, unadorned, unfeigned style – no "glozing stuff."

↩︎ The London Review of Books

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