A tragedy in one act versione in inglese dalla university of virginia library, electronic text center tags oscar wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in french. Salomeoscar wilde descargar libropdf epubfreeditorial. Wilde himself, in a rhetorical period, seems to have contemplated the possibility of his prose drama for a musical theme. Salome oscar wilde wilde, oscar 18541900 an irishborn english poet, novelist, and playwright. The play tells in one act the biblical story of salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch. 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 iokanaan john the baptist on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the. Thy body is white, like the lilies of a field that the mower hath never mowed. Wildes heroine bears no resemblance to her biblical origin. Wilde wrote salome in french in 1893 for the famous actress. King arthur and the knights of the round table leatherbound classics thomas malory. Thy body is white like the snows that lie on the mountains of judaea, and come down into the valleys. A woman of no importance oscar wilde ph phoenixlibrary.
Contains all the aubrey beardsley drawings and is the english translation undertaken by lord alfred douglas of wildes most brilliant tale of passion, which was originally written in french to avoid unsuccessfully victorian censorship. The roses in the garden of the queen of arabia are not so white as thy body. Salome, daughter of herodias the slaves of salome scene a great terrace in the palace of herod, set above the banquetinghall. Before tracing briefly the vicissitudes of a work that has been more execrated than even its author, i venture to repeat the corrections which i communicated to the morning post when the opera of dr. Considered an eccentric, he was the leader of the aesthetic movement that advocated art for arts sake and was once imprisoned for two years with hard labor for homosexual practices. Three years later an english translation was published. His salome is no mere instrument of herodias, but a. Oscar wilde 18541900 the original 1891 version of the play was in french. A house of pomegranates oscar wilde gu projeto gutenberg. Highlights of the play salome, directed by anastasia revi and performed in thessaloniki greece. This rather solomn and sombre play, told in verse, is the biblical story of salome shown left, in the list of pictures plate, a. Salome hardcover january 1, 1930 by oscar wilde author 3. While owen horsleys much livelier rsc version goes back to oscar wildes text, it uses it to explore, according to the programme, the complex issue of what it means to be gay today.
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. To the right there is a gigantic staircase, to the left, at the back, an old cistern surrounded by a wall of green bronze. Salome by oscar wilde 9781554811892 paperback barnes. Translated by lord alfred bruce douglas addeddate 20091029 00. Strauss was produced in a mutilated verson at covent. The story of salome was prominent in both literature and the visual arts until the end of the renaissance, and was revived in the nineteenth century by heinrich herne, and explored by such divergent authors as gustave flaubert, stephane mallarme, joriskaril huysmans, and oscar wilde. Its loosely based on the biblical story as told in the new testament books mark 6. Aubrey beardsley illustrations for salome by oscar wilde. It is fuller and more explicit than the censored versions of the drawings published in 1894. 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. Salome a tragedy in one act translated from the french of oscar wilde, with an introduction by robert ross, with seven teen lullpage ilhstratj.
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