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Salome

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Der Einakter "Salome" (französisch "Salomé") von Oscar Wilde gilt als eines der wichtigsten Dramen der anglo-französischen Décadence.

Die Originalsprache der Tragödie ist nicht englisch, sondern französisch. Wilde schrieb dazu am 17. Dezember 1891 an Edmond de Goncourt, er sei "im Herzen Franzose, der Geburt nach aber Ire und von den Engländern dazu verurteilt, die Sprache Shakespeares zu sprechen."

Das Stück sorgte besonders in England für Skandal. Es wurde zensiert und zum Teil als Bearbeitung eines biblischen Stoffs auch verboten. Zudem wurde die Darstellung der sexuellen Begierde Salomés für untragbar gehalten. Heute gehört das Drama zu den etablierten, wenngleich auch wegen seiner Kürze eher selten gespielten Bühnenstücken an den Theatern besonders in Großbritannien. Die darauf beruhende Oper Salome von Richard Strauss gehört hingegen zum Repertoire der Opernhäuser in aller Welt.
LanguageDeutsch
PublisherBookRix
Release dateJun 23, 2017
ISBN9783736854277
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Oscar Wilde

Born in Ireland in 1856, Oscar Wilde was a noted essayist, playwright, fairy tale writer and poet, as well as an early leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His plays include: An Ideal Husband, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, and Lady Windermere's Fan. Among his best known stories are The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Wilde'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: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very 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.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I 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 stars
    3/5
    Classic 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: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Note 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.