num_pages: 228
description: This is the first book-length study of Oscar Wilde's play Salome. Often drawing on little-known sources, the authors provide a detailed stage history of this controversial work, and its transformation into opera, dance and film with such major innovators as Max Reinhardt, Richard Strauss, Serge Diaghilev, Peter Brook, Salvador Dali, Lindsay Kemp and Steven Berkoff contributing to Salome's contemporary reputation.
language: English
title: Salome
titlecomplete: Salome
characters: A Nubian, Tigellinus, Herod Antipas, Salome, John the Baptist, A Cappadocian, Herodias, The Young Syrian
genres: Literature, Classics, Irish Literature, Drama, Victorian, Plays, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Theatre
ratings_count: 17438
places: Herod's Palace
publisher: Cambridge University Press