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October 2007



CHARLES A. CARPENTER

This month we drew readers’ attention to Wilde Play by Play: A Selective, Classified International Bibliography of Publications About the Drama of Oscar Wilde. This valuable work by Charles A. Carpenter of Binghamton University is complete (insofar as a selective bibliography can be complete) up to November 2005, and is available from the author @.

Here, courtesy of Dr Carpenter, we give the Table of Contents.

 

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Introduction                                                                                                      3

Sources Consulted                                                                                            5

Abbreviations                                                                                                    6

Wilde’s Essential Writings and Statements Relevant to His Drama  7

 

Publications About Wilde’s Drama and Its Background

 

 

Collections of Essays                                                                                         9

Bibliographic and Reference Works                                                                 10

Comprehensive, General, and Introductory Works on Wilde’s Drama           11

Selected Biographical Works                                                                            24

Selected Theatrical Commentaries                                                                 25

Wilde as Critic and Theorist                                                                            27

 

Commentaries on Individual Plays

 

“The Cardinal of Avignon” (Scenario)                                                               30

The Duchess of Padua                                                                                        30

A Florentine Tragedy                                                                                          30

An Ideal Husband                                                                                              31

The Importance of Being Earnest                                                                        33

Lady Windermere’s Fan                                                                                      44

“Love Is Law”  (Scenario)                                                                                  48

Mr and Mrs Daventry  (by Frank Harris, based on Wilde’s scenario)                49

La Sainte Courtisane; or, The Woman Covered with Jewels                                48

Salomé / Salome                                                                                                49

Vera; or The Nihilists                                                                                          61

A Wife’s Tragedy                                                                                                62

A Woman of No Importance                                                                                 62

 

 


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