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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.
- Oscar Wilde
- 1894
A short summary of Oscar Wilde's Salomé. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Salomé.
Tragic story of Salomé, the step-daughter of King Herod and the beheader of John the Baptist.
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.
The amusing caricatures of Wilde which appear in the Frontispiece, "Enter Herodias" and "The Eyes of Herod," are the only pieces of vraisemblance in these exquisite designs. The colophon is a real masterpiece and a witty criticism of the play as well.
A summary of Oscar Wilde's tragedy, which tells the Biblical story of Salomé, first published in 1891 in French. Salomé is the princess of Judaea, daughter of Queen Herodias, step-daughter to King Herod.
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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….
