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.
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"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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This edition 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 the controversial work, and its transformation into opera, dance and film with major innovators.
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The intertextual history of the Salome story is so complex as to make any account of Wilde's precise influences highly problematic. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John the Baptist, Maud Allan, Oscar Wilde, Kleines Theater, Theda Bara, Wilde's Salome, Covent Garden, Neues Theater, Aubrey Beardsley, King's Hall, New York, Robert Ross, Bijou Theatre, Joan Maude, Mata Hari, Alla Nazimova, Charles Ricketts, Ida Rubinstein, Loie Fuller, Nancy Price, Richard Strauss, Sarah Bernhardt, Lindsay Kemp, Miss Allan, Peter Brook New!
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The intertextual history of the Salome story is so complex as to make any account of Wilde's precise influences highly problematic. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John the Baptist, Maud Allan, Oscar Wilde, Kleines Theater, Theda Bara, Wilde's Salome, Covent Garden, Neues Theater, Aubrey Beardsley, King's Hall, New York, Robert Ross, Bijou Theatre, Joan Maude, Mata Hari, Alla Nazimova, Charles Ricketts, Ida Rubinstein, Loie Fuller, Nancy Price, Richard Strauss, Sarah Bernhardt, Lindsay Kemp, Miss Allan, Peter Brook New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Oscar Wilde (Grove Press Modern Dramatists) by Katherine Worth in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings by Oscar Wilde in Back Matter
- Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author (Plays in Production) by Jennifer Lorch in Front Matter
- Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children (Plays in Production) by Peter Thomson in Front Matter
- Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Plays in Production) by Stephen J. Bottoms in Front Matter
- Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the Fin de Siècle in Europe (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) by Charles Bernheimer in Back Matter
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