The Turn of the Screw adaptations and reworkings in a variety of media, and these reworkings and adaptations have, themselves, been analysed in the academic literature on Henry James and neo-Victorian culture. It was adapted to an opera by Benjamin Britten, which premiered in 1954, and the opera has been filmed on numerous occasions. The novella was adapted as a ballet score (1980) by Luigi Zaninelli, and separately as a ballet (1999) by Will Tucket for the Royal Ballet. Harold Pinter directed "The Innocents" (1950), a Broadway play which was an adaptation of "The Turn of the Screw", and a subsequent eponymous stage play, adapted
The Cenci the UK was by the Trinity College of Music on July 9-11, 1998. In 1951, British classical composer Havergal Brian composed an opera based on the Shelley play entitled "The Cenci", an opera in eight scenes. The opera premiered in 1997 in the UK in a performance in London by the Millennium Sinfonia conducted by James Kelleher.. In 1971, "Beatrix Cenci" premiered, an opera in two acts by Alberto Ginastera to a Spanish libretto by the composer William Shand. Other works titled "The Cenci" include an 1837 novella by Stendhal and an 1840 true crime essay by Alexandre Dumas, père,