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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
Composition history. Oscar Wilde originally wrote his Salomé in French. Strauss saw the Lachmann version of the play in Max Reinhardt 's production at the Kleines Theater in Berlin on 15 November 1902, [2] and immediately set to work on an opera. The play's formal structure was well-suited to musical adaptation.
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Salome with John the Baptist's head, by Charles Mellin (1597–1649) Salome (/ s ə ˈ l oʊ m i /; Hebrew: שְלוֹמִית, romanized: Shlomit, related to שָׁלוֹם, Shalom "peace"; Greek: Σαλώμη), also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II (son of Herod the Great) and princess Herodias.
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.
Oscar Wilde’s one-act play Salomé (published 1893; first performed 1896) was translated by Hedwig Lachmann as the libretto for Richard Strauss’s one-act opera of the same name (first produced 1905), in which Herod is portrayed as lusting after Salome, while Salome, in her turn, desires John the Baptist; she….
As noted above, Wilde wrote Salomé while frequenting the symbolist circles of late nineteenth-century Paris. Among the symbolists, the legend of the Oriental princess who dances for the head of John the Baptist had experienced a massive revival in both the visual and literary arts.
Salomé is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde, first written in French in 1891 and translated into English in 1894 by Lord Alfred Douglas with revisions by Wilde. The play was first performed in Paris in 1896 after being banned from the English stage for its depiction of biblical characters.
