Salome: Drama in einem Aufzuge

by Oscar Wilde

Overview

Oscar Wilde: Salome. Drama in einem Aufzuge

Komponiert von Richard Strauss. Uraufführung am 09.12.1905, Königlich-Sächsisches Opernhaus (Semperoper), Dresden. Nach Oskar Wildes gleichnamiger Dichtung.

Vollständige Neuausgabe.
Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.
Berlin 2015.

Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe:
Richard Strauss: Salome. Drama in einem Aufzuge, nach Oskar Wilde's gleichnamiger Dichtung, dt. v. Hedwig Lachmann, Berlin: Adolph Fürstner, 1905.

Die Paginierung obiger Ausgabe wird in dieser Neuausgabe als Marginalie zeilengenau mitgeführt.

Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Hedwig Lachmann (Fotographie, um 1885).

Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783843096102
Publisher:	Hofenberg
Publication date:	10/05/2015
Pages:	30
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.07(d)
Language:	German

About the Author

Kimberly J. Stern is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Date of Birth:

October 16, 1854

Date of Death:

November 30, 1900

Place of Birth:

Dublin, Ireland

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

The Royal School in Enniskillen, Dublin, 1864; Trinity College, Dublin, 1871; Magdalen College, Oxford, England, 1874

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Oscar Wilde: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Salome

Appendix A: Sources

1. Matthew 14:1-12, The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha (2008)
2. “Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower World,” The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East (1917)
3. From Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll (1843)
4. From J.C. Heywood, Herodias: A Dramatic Poem (1867)
5. From Oscar Wilde, “Review of J.C. Heywood’s Salome,” Pall Mall Gazette (15 February 1888)
6. From Stéphane Mallarmé, “La scéne: Nourrice—Hérodiade” (1864-67)
7. From Gustave Flaubert, “Hérodias” (1877)
8. William Wilde, “Salome” (1878)
9. From Joris-Karl Huysmans, Á Rebours (1884)
10. From Maurice Maeterlinck, La Princesse Maleine (1889)

Appendix B: A Visual History

1. Gustave Moreau, “The Apparition” (1876)
2. Aubrey Beardsley, Design for the Title Page to the English Edition of Salome (1894)
3. Aubrey Beardsley, Final Design for the Title Page (1894)
4. Aubrey Beardsley, “The Woman in the Moon” (1894)
5. Aubrey Beardsley, “The Climax” (1894)

Appendix C: Contemporary Responses

1. From Edgar Saltus, Oscar Wilde: An Idler’s Impression (1917)
2. Pierre Louÿs, “Salomé: à Oscar W.” (30 June 1892)
3. Letter from Oscar Wilde to Richard Le Gallienne (22/23 February 1893)
4. From a Letter from Bernard Shaw to Oscar Wilde (28 February 1893)
5. From a Letter from Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner (February 1893)
6. From “Salomé,” The Times (23 February 1893)
7. From a Review of Salomé, Pall Mall Gazette (27 February 1893)
8. Letter from Stéphane Mallarmé to Oscar Wilde (March 1893)
9. From William Archer, “Mr. Oscar Wilde’s New Play,”Black and White (11 May 1893)
10. From Lord Alfred Douglas, “Salomé: A Critical Overview,” The Spirit Lamp (1893)

Appendix D: Translation History

1. Letter from Lord Alfred Douglas to John Lane (30 September 1893)
2. From a Letter from Lord Alfred Douglas to John Lane (16 November 1893)
3. From a Letter from Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas (January-March 1897)
4. From a Letter from Robert Ross to Frank Harris (undated)
5. From Lord Alfred Douglas, Autobiography (1929)
6. Translation Chart

Appendix E: Performance History

1. From Charles Ricketts, Self-Portrait (1939)
2. From Graham Robertson, Time Was (1931)
3. Photograph of Sarah Bernhardt in Costume as Salome (1891)
4. From a Letter from Oscar Wilde to William Rothenstein (July 1892)
5. “Mr. Oscar Wilde on Salome,” The Times (2 March 1893)
6. From Oscar Wilde, “The Censure and Salome,” Pall Mall Budget (30 June 1892)
7. Bernard Partridge, “A Wilde Idea,” Punch Magazine (9 July 1892)
8. From a Letter from Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner (June 1892)
9. Oscar Wilde, “Plan de la scene” (1891)
10. From M.J. du Tillet, “Théâtres” [review of the Paris premiere of Salome], Revue bleue politique et littéraire (1896)
11. From Jean de Tinan, “Théâtre de l’oeuvre: Salomé” [review of the Paris premiere], Mercure de France (March 1896)
12. From “Salome,” The Saturday Review (13 May 1905)
13. Photograph of Alice Guszalewicz in Costume as Salome (c. 1910)
14. “The Cult of the Clitoris,” The Vigilante (16 February 1918)
15. From the Verbatim Report of the Trial of Noel Pemberton Billington, MP, on a Charge of Criminal Libel (1918)

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Editorial Reviews

Salome illuminated! This edition presents Salome as a formally complex, richly intertextual, and generative phenomenon of international modernism. Kimberly Stern sets a superbly annotated text between an extensive introduction and several appendices documenting the play’s literary, cultural, and visual sources, its reception, and its translation, illustration, and performance histories. The edition offers copious source materials to augment the text, some requisite and some unexpected. Stern’s adept and unprecedented selection of contextual sources enhances the powerful and recurrent fascination of a play that has continuously spawned adaptations as well as controversy. This is where all students of Salome should start.

Heidi Hartwig Central Connecticut State University

"An operatic riff on the destructive potential of desire and power"-Times

"lyrical, exotic and dark in the extreme"-Whatsonstage.com



"An operatic riff on the destructive potential of desire and power"-Times

"lyrical, exotic and dark in the extreme"-Whatsonstage.com

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