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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

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who rose to global fame in the 1880s as a larger-than-life public persona with plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and Lady Windermere's Fan. The author of countless brilliant epigrams that form part of our popular lexicon, he was sentenced to two years of hard labor in prison for having relations with men, which ruined his reputation and career. Upon his release he exiled himself in France, where he died penniless. Today Wilde is celebrated as a courageous crusader for free expression, gay love, and anyone oppressed by hypocritical conventions.

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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.