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Wilde: Salome

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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.

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ISBN: 9780521454230
Publication date: 28th August 1996
Author: William University of Wales, Bangor Tydeman, Steven University of Wales, Bangor Price
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 228 pages
Series: Plays in Production
Genres: Theatre studies
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900