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Salomé

Oscar Wilde

Book Overview: 

The original version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Iokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Mr. Charles Ricketts was responsible, and the marvellous impersonation of Herod by Mr. Robert Farquharson. Wilde used to say that "Salomé" was a mirror in which everyone could see himself. The artist, art; the dull, dulness; the vulgar, vulgarity.

1. THE WOMAN IN THE MOON. 2. TITLE PAGE. 3. COVER DESIGN. 4. LIST OF THE PICTURES. 5. THE PEACOCK SKIRT. 6. THE BLACK CAPE. 7. A PLATONIC LAMENT. 8. JOHN AND SALOMÉ. 9. ENTER HERODIAS. 10. THE EYES OF HEROD. 11. THE STOMACH DANCE. 12. THE TOILETTE OF SALOMÉ—I. 13. THE TOILETTE OF SALOMÉ—II. 14. THE DANCER'S REWARD. 15. THE CLIMAX. 16. CUL DE LAMPE.

Cast of the Performance of "Salomé," represented in England for the first time.

NEW STAGE CLUB. "SALOMÉ," BY OSCAR WILDE. May 10th and 13th 1905. A YOUNG SYRIAN CAPTAIN—MR. HERBERT ALEXANDER. PAGE OF HERODIAS—MRS. GWENDOLEN BISHOP. FIRST S. . . Read More

Community Reviews

So this has to be one of the oddest, most oddly enthralling things I've come across in a while. Taken on it's own, Wilde's play isn't much: ponderous, dull. But combine it the whimsical illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, and through some kind of alchemical wizardry a rather extraordinary intertextua

a gothic classic. particularly pleasing if you are now, or have ever been rejected by a man who thought he was better than you.

off with their heads!

well that was... weird. i feel like oscar wilde was really high.

i read this play in three languages: french, english and spanish and in any of those languages i understood the mean or purpose of this... i was asking myself the entire time "what's the fucking purpose of this? why's salomé acting this

Salomé needs therapy, hell everyone in this play needs therapy

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”

Wilde's Salome was weird and disgusting and also a little satisfying. I can't really talk about any biblical, historical or political backgrounds, but it makes for an entertaining and unusual play that I'd love to see on stage some day.

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