Oscar Wilde

Salome, A Tragedy (Annotated) Oscar Wilde

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Salomé, A Tragedy by Oscar Wilde. This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context refers to the circumstances and incidents surrounding an event. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its time. Therefore, when analyzing events that took place tens, hundreds or thousands of years ago, it is essential to know the historical context to understand them. Otherwise, we would be analyzing and judging what happened in a totally different era with a current perspective.it is an Oscar Wilde tragedy. The original 1891 version of the work was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The work tells in one act the biblical story of Salomé, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to the dismay of his stepfather but to the delight of his mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils. Rehearsals for the play's debut on the London stage, for inclusion in Sarah Bernhardt's London season, began in 1892, but stopped when Lord Chamberlain's theater licensor banned Salomé on the grounds that It was illegal to represent biblical characters on stage