Salomé & Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde
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Salome (French: Salomé) is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfathers dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils.Wilde had considered the subject since he had first been introduced to Hérodias, one of Flauberts Trois Contes, by Walter Pater, at Oxford in 1877. His interest had been further stimulated by descriptions of Gustave Moreaus paintings of Salomé in Joris-Karl Huysmanss À rebours. Other literary influences include Heinrich Heines Atta Troll, Laforgues Salomé in Moralités Légendaires and Mallarmés Hérodiade.Many view Wildes Salomé as a superb composite of these earlier treatments of the theme overlaid, in terms of dramatic influences, with Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlincks characteristic methodical diction, and specifically Maeterlincks La Princesse Maleine, with its use of colour, sound, dance, visual description and visual effect. Wilde often referred to the play in musical terms and believed that recurring phrases bind it together like a piece of music with recurring motifs. Although the kissing of the head element was used in Heine and even Joseph Converse Heywoods production, Wildes ingenuity was to move it to the plays climax. While his debts are undeniable, there are some interesting contributions in Wildes treatment, most notably being his persistent use of parallels between Salomé and the moon.Scholars like Christopher Nassaar point out that Wilde employs a number of the images favoured by Israels kingly poets and that the moon is meant to suggest the pagan goddess Cybele, who, like Salomé, was obsessed with preserving her virginity and thus took pleasure in destroying male sexuality.
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