Acting Wilde : Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde (Paperback)

Introduction: Acting Wilde; 1. Posing and dis-posing: Oscar Wilde in America and beyond; 2. Pure Wilde: feminism and masculinity in Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, and A Woman of No Importance; 3. Performance anxiety in An Ideal Husband; 4. Performativity and history: The Importance of Being Earnest; 5. The 'lost' transcript, sexual acting, and the meaning of Wilde's trials; 6. Prison performativity; Epilogue: Wilde and modern drama; Bibliography of manuscripts and printed sources.