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Few works in English literature have so peculiar a history as Oscar Wilde's play Salome . Written originally in French in 1892 and ridiculed on its publication, translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie" himself) and again heaped with scorn, it has survived for 75... Read Full Overview

Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned Salom from the national stage. Symbolist poets and writers -- St phane Mallarm and Maurice Maeterlinck among them -- defended the play's literary brilliance. Beyond... Read Full Overview

"Salom?" is a 1891 play in one act by Oscar Wilde. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant attire, Wilde was a proponent... Read Full Overview

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for... Read Full Overview

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En dition bilingue anglais/fran ais, avec lecture audio int gr e: Non seulement vous pourrez lireSalom en fran ais et en anglais, mais vous pouvez aussi couter la lecture de cet ouvrage en anglais, gr ce votre t l... Read Full Overview

A one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde, Salome presents a concentrated study of desire, power, and fatal consequence within a stylised biblical setting. The drama centres on the court of Herod, where Salome's fixation on John the Baptist sets in motion a sequence... Read Full Overview

Salomeis Oscar Wilde's most experimental--and controversial--play. In its own time, the play, written in French, was described by a reviewer as "an arrangement in blood and ferocity, morbid, bizarre, repulsive." None, however, could deny the importance of Wilde's creation. Contemporary... Read Full Overview

Salome is a classic tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. This is an English translation of the play presented in this modern up to date version. any profits made from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community Project,... Read Full Overview

Salom est une trag die d'Oscar Wilde dont la version originale de 1891 est en fran ais. Une traduction en anglais a suivi trois ans plus tard. La pi ce, en un acte, repose sur l' pisode biblique de Salom 1, belle-fille du t trarque de Galil e H rode Antipas, qui, la consternation... Read Full Overview

Written originally in French in 1892, Wilde's one-act tragedy "Salome" enacts the biblical tale of a wanton woman's erotic dance and the martyrdom of John the Baptist. This volume reprints the complete text of the first English edition (1894) with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley,... Read Full Overview

This 1996 book is a study of Oscar Wilde's Salome, a play now regarded as central to his artistic achievement. Often drawing on little-known sources, the authors provide a detailed stage-history of this controversial work, and its transformation into opera, dance and film. Beginning... Read Full Overview

"Los reyes nunca deber an comprometer su palabra. Si no la cumplen, es terrible, y si la cumplen, es terrible tambi n". Oscar Wilde a ade al personaje de Salom todo un argumento que trastoca la historia evang lica de Jokanaan. En la Biblia, Salom ped a la muerte de Juan por... Read Full Overview