![]() Undaunted, Wilde moved on to the drawing-room and society comedies he is today best known for, wowing London audiences with Lady Windermere's Fan and A Woman of No Importance, and it was only in 1894 that Salomé saw the light of day in an English translation, with a series of specially commissioned illustrations by the up-and-coming Aubrey Beardsley. The plays formal structure was well-suited to musical adaptation. This one-act play, a sinister tale of a woman scorned and her vengeance, has become a landmark of Decadent literature. Strauss saw the Lachmann version of the play in Max Reinhardt s production at the Kleines Theater in Berlin on 15 November 1902, 2 and immediately set to work on an opera. Oscar Wildes Salome was originally published in French in 1891 and translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. ![]() Written in 1891, and prepared for its first run in 1892, rehearsals of Salomé had to be cancelled when the play was banned by the Lord Chamberlain due to its depiction of religious characters. Oscar Wilde originally wrote his Salomé in French. ![]() ![]() Salomé, the haunting one-act tragedy that marks Wilde's first great success in the theatre, retells the Biblical story in which the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas demands the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter as a reward for her dancing for her stepfather's amusement. ![]()
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