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Wilde: Salome

Steven Price author William Tydeman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:28th Aug '96

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This 1998 book is a study of Oscar Wilde's Salome, a play now regarded as central to his artistic achievement.

This 1996 book is a study of Oscar Wilde's 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.This 1996 book is a study of Oscar Wilde's Salome, a play now regarded as central to his artistic achievement. 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. Beginning with Sarah Bernhardt's aborted production of 1892, the book surveys Salome's principal realisations in the European theatre, including Lugné-Poe's Parisian première of 1896, Reinhardt's Berlin productions of 1902–3, attempts at presentation in pre-revolutionary Russia, and the play's impact on the English stage between 1911 and 1990. A separate chapter explores a wealth of further interpretations, including Aubrey Beardsley's challenging illustrations, Strauss's operatic version and the provocative films created by Alla Nazimova and Ken Russell.

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

ISBN: 9780521565455

Dimensions: 217mm x 139mm x 18mm

Weight: 318g

228 pages