Salome' - Softcover

Wilde, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0828314675 ISBN 13: 9780828314671

Publisher: Branden Books, 2013

Synopsis

Oscar Wilde's Salome', is based on Biblical literature, and has inspired muscians and artists alike. Aubrey Beardsley has produced illustrations purlsihed herewith; even Strauss produced an opera derived from Salome'.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

A dark tale of hubris, lust, and self-destruction as told by a man who famously fell prey to those same impulses in his own life. Oscar Wilde wrote his original interpretation of the Biblical story of Salom in French, and the play was so controversial that no theatre in England would produce it for nearly four decades.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring:

Rosalind Ayres as Herodias, James Marsters as Iokanaan, Andre Sogliuzzo as The Young Syrian and others, Kate Steele as Salom, John Vickery as Herod, and Matthew Wolf as Page of Herodias and others.

(DIGITAL ONLY: Director Michael Hackett and Wilde scholar Dr. David Rodes discuss Salom 's history and where it fits stylistically in Wilde's canon.)

Music by Djivan Gasparyan and Lian Ensemble. Directed by Michael Hackett. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.

About the Author:

Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. In his lifetime he wrote nine plays, one novel, and numerous poems, short stories, and essays. Wilde was a proponent of the Aesthetic movement, which emphasized aesthetic values more than moral or social themes. This doctrine is most clearly summarized in the phrase 'art for art's sake'. Besides literary accomplishments, he is also famous, or perhaps infamous, for his wit, flamboyance, and affairs with men. He was tried and imprisoned for his homosexual relationship (then considered a crime) with the son of an aristocrat.

About this edition

• Publisher: Branden Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0828314675
• ISBN 13: 9780828314671
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102