Salome by Oscar Wilde, Kimberly Stern, Lord Alfred Douglas - 9781554811892

Broadview Press Ltd

Salome\nby Oscar Wilde\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 5\u20136 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Oscar Wilde\nTitle: Salome\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: plays and playwrights\nPublisher: Broadview Press Ltd\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9781554811892\nISBN-10: 1554811899\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nSalome is Oscar Wilde\u2019s most experimental\u2014and controversial\u2014play. In its own time, the play, written in French, was described by a reviewer as \u201Can arrangement in blood and ferocity, morbid, bizarre, repulsive.\u201D None, however, could deny the importance of Wilde\u2019s creation. Contemporary audiences and reviewers variously regarded Salome as the symbol of a thrilling modernity, a challenge to patriarchy, a c.