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Salome (French: Salomé, pronounced [salɔme]) is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original version of the play was first published in French in 1893; an English translation was published a year later. The play depicts the attempted seduction of Jokanaan ( John the Baptist) by Salome, stepdaughter of Herod Antipas; her dance of the seven ...
- Oscar Wilde
- 1894
May 6, 2018 · Oscar Wilde’s Salomé is a Christian nightmare. The story goes: King of Judea, King Herod, requests an adult dance from step-daughter Salomé; driven with lust for and revenge with, Salomé demands prophet John the Baptist’s severed head as her reward.
In 1905, Richard Strauss used Wilde’s play as the basis for his opera Salomé. The story is based upon the biblical account of John the Baptist’s death, in which the daughter of Queen Herodias supposedly demanded his head on a platter as payment for a dance.
Suddenly the court enters, and Herod calls for Salomé while Herodias reproaching him for always staring at her. Herod muses on the "strange look" of the moon, comparing her to a drunken madwoman looking for lovers. Herodias replies that the "moon is like the moon, that is all" and bids him inside.
Dec 24, 2005 · Wilde's play is a kind of Black Mass in which Salomé is presented as a counterpoint to Christ. She is born as the result of a demonic Virgin Birth (Herod insists that his wife is sterile) and brings the world a new gospel of love and complete sexual liberation.
Salomé is a one-act play written by Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde in 1891 and first performed in 1896. It tells the biblical story of Salomé, the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas, who requests the head of John the Baptist as a reward for dancing for her stepfather.
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