Wilde: Salome

by William Tydeman, Steven Price

Overview

This is the first book-length study of Oscar Wilde's play Salome. Often drawing on little-known sources, the authors provide a detailed stage history of this controversial work, and its transformation into opera, dance and film with such major innovators as Max Reinhardt, Richard Strauss, Serge Diaghilev, Peter Brook, Salvador Dali, Lindsay Kemp and Steven Berkoff contributing to Salome's contemporary reputation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521454230
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/28/1996
Series:	Plays in Production
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Beginnings; 2. Early stage productions in Europe; 3. Salome on the English stage, 1911–90; 4. Transformations; Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

"Wilde: Salome is a detailed, well-thought, and meticulously researched account of an often-ignored play by a major playwright." Jonathan Chambers, Victorian Studies

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