Oscar Wilde

Salome, A Tragedy (Annotated) Oscar Wilde

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Salomé is the title of an Oscar Wilde tragedy of 1891 that shows, in a single act, a very personal version of Salomé's biblical story. Stepdaughter of the ruling Herod Antipas, he asked his stepfather for the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter, as a reward for having danced before him. Oscar Wilde adds to the character of Salomé a whole plot that changes the evangelical story of Jokanaan. In the Bible, Salomé requested the death of Juan by instigation of its mother Herodías, to which Jokanaan reproached to coexist with Herod in spite of being married with Filipo, brother of Herod. In Wilde's work, on the other hand, Salomé is in love (obsessively even) with Jokanaan (Juan), who rejects his love. The request that he be beheaded comes, then, out of spite. After death, in a combination of eros and thanatos very typical of the time (in the same work a Syrian soldier, in love with Salomé, commits suicide), Salomé kisses the lips of Jokanaan's severed head. Herod, in love with Salomé, orders to kill her. Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900) Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, in the early 1890s he became one of London's most popular playwrights