Performing Salome, Revealing Stories
With its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February 1896, Oscar Wilde''s Salomé took on female embodied form that signalled the start of ''her'' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the twentieth century. This volume explores Salome''s appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde''s heroine, nor Richard Strauss''s - but Salome as a cultural icon in f...
With its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February 1896, Oscar Wilde''s Salomé took on female embodied form that signalled the start of ''her'' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the twentieth century. This volume explores Salome''s appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde''s heroine, nor Richard Strauss''s - but Salome as a cultural icon in f...