Oscar Wilde

Salome, A Tragedy (Annotated) Oscar Wilde

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Salomé, A Tragedy by Oscar Wilde.it is an Oscar Wilde tragedy. The original 1891 version of the work was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The work tells in one act the biblical story of Salomé, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to the dismay of his stepfather but to the delight of his 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. Rehearsals for the play's debut on the London stage, for inclusion in Sarah Bernhardt's London season, began in 1892, but stopped when Lord Chamberlain's theater licensor banned Salomé on the grounds that It was illegal to represent biblical characters on stage. The work was first published in French in February 1893, and an English translation, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, in February 1894. On the Dedication page, Wilde indicated that his lover Lord Alfred Douglas was the translator. In fact, Wilde and Douglas had quarreled over the latter's translation of the text, which had been disastrous given their poor command of French, although Douglas claimed that the errors were really in Wilde's original work.