Oscar Wilde

Salome, A Tragedy (Annotated) Oscar Wilde

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Salomé, A Tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment.it is an Oscar Wilde tragedy. The original 1891 version of the work was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The work tells in one act the biblical story of Salomé, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to the dismay of his stepfather but to the delight of his mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils. Rehearsals for the play's debut on the London stage, for inclusion in Sarah Bernhardt's London season, began in 1892, but stopped when Lord Chamberlain's theater licensor banned Salomé on the grounds that It was illegal to represent biblical characters on stage