Oscar Wilde on stage and screen / Robert Tanitch

London : Methuen, 1999. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 436 pages: illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Notes: Includes index.Contents: Life -- Scandal -- Trials of Oscar Wilde -- Presentiments -- Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement -- Twentieth-Century Biography -- Plays -- Theatrical Premieres: 1883-1896 -- Vera or The Nihilists -- The Duchess of Padua -- Lady Windermere's Fan -- Salome -- A Woman of No Importance -- An Ideal Husband -- The Importance of Being Earnest -- A Florentine Tragedy -- La Sainte Courtesane -- Mr and Mrs Daventry -- Novels And Tales -- The Canterville Ghost -- The Happy Prince -- The Remarkable Rocket -- The Selfish Giant -- The Nightingale and the Rose -- The Birthday of the Infanta -- The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime -- The Fisherman and His Soul -- The Star-Child -- Sphinx without a Secret -- Anthologies -- Other Works -- The Critic as Artist -- De Profundis -- The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Subjects: Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 Stage history. Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 Stories, plots, etc. Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 Film adaptations. Theater Great Britain History 19th century. Film adaptations History and criticism. English literature Irish authors Film and video adaptations. Genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc. Film adaptations. History. Illustrated. Stories, plots, etc. Summary:Robert Tanitch's study looks at the plays, productions, films and one-person performances which have focused on Oscar Wilde's comedies and his life. It examines the way Wilde's works have been performed throughout the world, on stage and screen.