Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Oscar Wilde: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
Salome
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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