Autobiography of oscar wilde salome wiki
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Oscar Wilde
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Early Years
Oscar Fingal O&#;Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16th, in Dublin, Ireland. He was the second child of parents Sir William and Jane Wilde; his older brother, William Robert Kingsbury Wills Wilde, was born in and his younger sister, Isola Francesca Emily Wilde, would be born in (William Wilde also had three illegitimate children whom he continued to support). Wilde&#;s mother, born Jane Frances Elgee, was a woman of immense character whose thoughts and actions heavily influenced her son. Wilde&#;s biographer, Richard Ellmann, notes that Lady Wilde renamed herself &#;Speranza Francesca Wilde&#; and frequently pretended to be younger than she truthfully was, which helps to explain Wilde&#;s fascination with name and age in his later work (). Another way his parents influenced him was through their own writing. His mother was a prolific poet who published nationalist poems in Irish newspapers and his father, who was a physician, wrote many suc
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Salome (play)
Tragedy by Oscar Wilde
This article is about the play bygd Oscar Wilde. For other uses, see Salome (disambiguation).
Salome (French: Salomé, pronounced[salɔme]) is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original version of the play was first published in French in ; an English translation was published a year later. The play depicts the attempted seduction of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) by Salome, stepdaughter of Herod Antipas; her dance of the seven veils; the execution of Jokanaan at Salome's instigation; and her death on Herod's orders.
The first production was in Paris in Because the play depicted biblical characters it was banned in Britain and was not performed publicly there until The play became popular in Germany, and Wilde's text was taken by the composer Richard Strauss as the basis of his opera Salome, the international success of which has overshadowed Wilde's original play. Film and other adaptations have been made of the play.
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Salome (Wilde): Themes and derivatives
Salome bygd Oscar Wilde, a play written in and first produced in , has been analysed bygd numerous literary critics, and has prompted numerous derivatives. The play depicts the events leading to the execution of Iokanaan (John the Baptist) at the instigation of Salome, step-daughter of Herod Antipas, and her death on Herod's orders.
Themes
[edit]Some critics, including Christel Stalpaert, Bram Van Oostveldt and Jaak Van Schoor, view Wilde's Salomé as a composite of earlier treatments of the theme overlaid, in terms of dramatic influences, with the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck's characteristic methodical diction,[2][3] and specifically Maeterlinck's La Princesse Maleine, 'with its use of colour, sound, dance, visual description and visual effect'.[4]
Although the "kissing of the head" element was used in Heine and Joseph Converse Heywood's, treatments, Wilde's ingenuity was to move it to t