Wilde Now Performance Celebrity And Intermediality In Oscar Wilde

Wilde Nowreads Oscar Wilde Through Our Now, Through A Contemporary Sensibility (and Approach), In Which Literature And Popular Culture Interrogate And Are Interrogated By Critical Concepts And Categories Such As Performance, Celebrity, Intermediality, And Consumerism. This Volume Exceeds The Shape And Meaning Of A Critical Study To Turn Into A Drama Of Five Different Actsmoments In Wildes Life And Work: His Early Performances In Dublin, London And Oxford; The 1882 American Tour; His Successful Season Of The First Half Of The 1890s, His Prison Years And Finally His Glorious Resurrection In Contemporary Pop Culture. Most Importantlynbsp;wilde Nownbsp;approaches These Moments Through Contemporary Rewritings And Performances Of Oscar Wilde In The Fields Of Cinema, Music And Literature By Such Artists As Al Pacino, Rupert Everett, Stephen Fry, Gyles Brandreth, David Hare, David Bowie, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Neil Tennant, Gavin Friday.