Wilde Salome [Paperback]

This 1998 book is a study of Oscar Wilde's Salome, a play now regarded as central to his artistic achievement.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.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.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.Introduction; 1. Beginnings; 2. Early stage productions in Europe; 3. Salome on the English stage, 191190; 4. Transformations; Conclusion. Wilde: Salome is a detailed, well-thought, and meticulously researched account of an often-ignored play by a major playwright. Jonathan Chambers, Victorian Studies