Salome
By Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was a Dublin-born poet and playwright who studied at the Portora Royal School, before attending Trinity College and Magdalen College, Oxford. The son of two writers, Wilde grew up in an intellectual environment. As a young man, his poetry appeared in various periodicals including Dublin University Magazine. In 1881, he published his first book Poems, an expansive collection of his earlier works. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was released in 1890 followed by the acclaimed plays Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Note to Oscar -- stick to the witty repartee and the mocking of society that is your trademark. I could not sit through this wordy, heavy piece if my life depended on it. The guy who was beheaded was the lucky one.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I suppose its actually better than this old, twentieth century, South Pacific native could ever appreciate. If it was, indeed, written by Oscar Wilde, it is so different from his Victorian English comedic dramas that I couldn't recognize any threads of sisterhood to them. I love those and I don't love this.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Classic retelling of the story of The daughter of Herod and her wish of the Head of John the Baptist for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wilde's writing is the center piece of this play about Herod, Salome, and John the Baptist. A fine, quick read, with a very fine introduction by Holbrook Jackson.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Salome by Oscar Wilde was a very strange play. The usual witty, humorous dialogs which I expected in his play was totally absent. This actually turned out to be a very depressing book. I could not relate to the protagonist Salome one bit I felt she was an eccentric character. First of all Salome desiring a Baptist was something very odd and on top that she wanted him very badly and then when he rejected her at once she took a very drastic step to get him back which was horrible and disturbing. I am unable to understand what to make out of this play!!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A haunting story based on a few short bible versus this play was the base of the opera. Libretto is almost identical. Excellent preparation if u plan to see the opera
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very well-edited, newly translated three-language edition (French, English, Swedish) of Wilde's quite short and very quickly banned play. The annotations are very good, placing the script in a biblical and historical context, even noting where Wilde, for example, uses phrases in his other works. Not my fave tome by Wilde, but still very readable.
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Salome - Oscar Wilde
Salome
Oscar Wilde
Start Publishing LLC
Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC
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First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2012
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Dramatis Personæ
Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Judaea
Iokanaan, the Prophet
The Young Syrian, Captain of the Guard
Tigellinus, a Young Roman
A Cappodocian
A Nubian
First Soldier
Second Soldier
The Page of Herodias
Jews, Nazarenes, Etc.
A Slave
Namaan, the Executioner
Herodias, Wife of the Tetrarch
Salome, Daughter of Herodias
The Slaves of Salome
Scene: A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall. Some soldiers are leaning over the balcony. To the right there is a gigantic staircase, to the left, at the back, an old cistern surrounded by a wall of green bronze. The moon is shining very brightly.
Salome
The Young Syrian: How beautiful is the Princess Salome to-night!
The Page of Herodias: Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.
The Young Syrian: She has a strange look. She is like a little princess who wears a yellow veil, and whose feet are of silver. She is like a princess who has little white doves for feet. One might fancy she was dancing.
The Page of Herodias: She is like a woman who is dead. She moves very slowly.
[Noise in the banqueting-hall.]
First Soldier: What an uproar! Who are those wild beasts howling?
Second Soldier: The Jews. They are always like that. They are disputing about their religion.
First Soldier: Why do they dispute about their religion?
Second Soldier: I cannot tell. They are always doing it. The Pharisees, for instance, say that there are angels, and the Sadducees declare that angels do not exist.
First Soldier: I think it is ridiculous to dispute about such things.
The Young Syrian: How beautiful is the Princess Salome to-night!
The Page of Herodias: You are always looking at her. You look at her too much. It is dangerous to look at people in such fashion. Something terrible may happen.
The Young Syrian: She is very beautiful to-night.
First Soldier: The Tetrarch has a sombre aspect.
Second Soldier: Yes; he has a sombre aspect.
First Soldier: He is looking at something.
Second Soldier: He is looking at some one.
First Soldier: At whom is he looking?
Second Soldier: I cannot tell.
The Young Syrian: How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.
The Page of Herodias: You must not look at her. You look too much at her.
First Soldier: Herodias has filled the cup of the Tetrarch.
The Cappadocian: Is that the Queen Herodias, she who wears a black mitre sewed with pearls, and whose hair is powdered with blue dust?
First Soldier: Yes; that is Herodias, the Tetrarch's wife.
Second Soldier: The Tetrarch is very fond of wine. He has wine of three sorts. One which is brought from the Island of Samothrace, and is purple like the cloak of Caesar.
The Cappadocian: I have never seen Caesar.
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