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Salome tells the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils. A powerful tragedy, Wilde at his best.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781617203220 |
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Publisher: | Wilder Publications |
Publication date: | 03/28/2011 |
Pages: | 40 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.10(d) |
About the Author
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was a Dublin-born poet and playwright who studied at the Portora Royal School, before attending Trinity College and Magdalen College, Oxford. The son of two writers, Wilde grew up in an intellectual environment. As a young man, his poetry appeared in various periodicals including Dublin UniversityMagazine. In 1881, he published his first book Poems, an expansive collection of his earlier works. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was released in 1890 followed by the acclaimed plays Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
Date of Birth:
October 16, 1854Date of Death:
November 30, 1900Place of Birth:
Dublin, IrelandPlace of Death:
Paris, FranceEducation:
The Royal School in Enniskillen, Dublin, 1864; Trinity College, Dublin, 1871; Magdalen College, Oxford, England, 1874Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Oscar Wilde: A Brief Chronology A Note on the TextSalome
Appendix A: Sources
- Matthew 14:1-12, The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha (2008)
- “Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower World,” The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East (1917)
- From Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll (1843)
- From J.C. Heywood, Herodias: A Dramatic Poem (1867)
- From Oscar Wilde, “Review of J.C. Heywood’s Salome,” Pall Mall Gazette (15 February 1888)
- From Stéphane Mallarmé, “La scéne: Nourrice—Hérodiade” (1864-67)
- From Gustave Flaubert, “Hérodias” (1877)
- William Wilde, “Salome” (1878)
- From Joris-Karl Huysmans, Á Rebours (1884)
- From Maurice Maeterlinck, La Princesse Maleine (1889)
Appendix B: A Visual History
- Gustave Moreau, “The Apparition” (1876)
- Aubrey Beardsley, Design for the Title Page to the English Edition of Salome (1894)
- Aubrey Beardsley, Final Design for the Title Page (1894)
- Aubrey Beardsley, “The Woman in the Moon” (1894)
- Aubrey Beardsley, “The Climax” (1894)
Appendix C: Contemporary Responses
- From Edgar Saltus, Oscar Wilde: An Idler’s Impression (1917)
- Pierre Louÿs, “Salomé: à Oscar W.” (30 June 1892)
- Letter from Oscar Wilde to Richard Le Gallienne (22/23 February 1893)
- From a Letter from Bernard Shaw to Oscar Wilde (28 February 1893)
- From a Letter from Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner (February 1893)
- From “Salomé,” The Times (23 February 1893)
- From a Review of Salomé, Pall Mall Gazette (27 February 1893)
- Letter from Stéphane Mallarmé to Oscar Wilde (March 1893)
- From William Archer, “Mr. Oscar Wilde’s New Play,”Black and White (11 May 1893)
- From Lord Alfred Douglas, “Salomé: A Critical Overview,” The Spirit Lamp (1893)
Appendix D: Translation History
- Letter from Lord Alfred Douglas to John Lane (30 September 1893)
- From a Letter from Lord Alfred Douglas to John Lane (16 November 1893)
- From a Letter from Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas (January-March 1897)
- From a Letter from Robert Ross to Frank Harris (undated)
- From Lord Alfred Douglas, Autobiography (1929)
- Translation Chart
Appendix E: Performance History
- From Charles Ricketts, Self-Portrait (1939)
- From Graham Robertson, Time Was (1931)
- Photograph of Sarah Bernhardt in Costume as Salome (1891)
- From a Letter from Oscar Wilde to William Rothenstein (July 1892)
- “Mr. Oscar Wilde on Salome,” The Times (2 March 1893)
- From Oscar Wilde, “The Censure and Salome,” Pall Mall Budget (30 June 1892)
- Bernard Partridge, “A Wilde Idea,” Punch Magazine (9 July 1892)
- From a Letter from Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner (June 1892)
- Oscar Wilde, “Plan de la scene” (1891)
- From M.J. du Tillet, “Théâtres” [review of the Paris premiere of Salome], Revue bleue politique et littéraire (1896)
- From Jean de Tinan, “Théâtre de l’oeuvre: Salomé” [review of the Paris premiere], Mercure de France (March 1896)
- From “Salome,” The Saturday Review (13 May 1905)
- Photograph of Alice Guszalewicz in Costume as Salome (c. 1910)
- “The Cult of the Clitoris,” The Vigilante (16 February 1918)
- From the Verbatim Report of the Trial of Noel Pemberton Billington, MP, on a Charge of Criminal Libel (1918)
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