* February 11 – Oscar Wilde's play " Salomé premieres in Paris.

Salomé ( 1923 ), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name.

The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist ( here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokaanan ) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.

It is also possible that the play Salomé by Oscar Wilde, published in 1893, was another symbolist source of inspiration for The King in Yellow.

The ominous language used, the drama, and the feeling of unease and expectation evokes Chambers's play ; on page one of Salomé, the moon is described as a " little princess who wears a yellow veil "; on pages three and nine, the young Syrian says, " How pale the princess is!

Richard Strauss's 1905 opera Salomé, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, uses a subject frequently depicted by symbolist artists.

" The Peacock Skirt ", illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for Oscar Wilde's play Salomé ( play ) | Salomé, 1896

Salomé's story was made the subject of a play by Oscar Wilde that premiered in Paris in 1896, under the French name Salomé.

** Salomé ( Mariotte ), a 1908 opera by Antoine Mariotte based on the Oscar Wilde play

54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde.

Maud Allan as Salomé with the head of John the Baptist in an early adaptation of Wilde's play

Australian musician Nick Cave wrote a 5-act play entitled Salomé which is included in the 1988 collection of Cave's writings, King Ink ( the play alludes to the Gospel account, Wilde's play, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes's 1869 painting, The Beheading of John the Baptist ).

The Oscar Wilde play Salomé, and Strauss's opera adaptation, both feature the dance of the seven veils.

While Salomé, An Ideal Husband and The Picture of Dorian Gray had dwelt on more serious wrongdoing, vice in Earnest is represented by Algy's craving for cucumber sandwiches.

In 2006, Salomé became available on DVD as a double feature with the avant garde film Lot in Sodom ( 1933 ) by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber.

That the expression is in French probably comes from the fact that the fin de siècle is particularly associated with certain late 19th-century French-speaking circles in Paris and Brussels, exemplified by artists like Stéphane Mallarmé and Claude Debussy, movements like Symbolism, and in works like Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( originally written in French and premiered in Paris )— which connects the idea of the fin de siècle also to the Aesthetic movement.

In 1904, Morton was succeeded by manager Alfred Butt, who introduced many innovations to the theatre, including dancers, such as Maud Allan ( including her famous Salomé ) and Anna Pavlova, and elegant pianist-singer Margaret Cooper.

Salomé, by Henri Regnault ( 1870 ).

* Salomé ( 2002 ), directed by Carlos Saura, using flamenco dance.

* Salomé in Low Land ( 2006 ), an animated short film by Christian Zagler using low-tech videogame style combined with opera music.

Salomé is played by Jessica Chastain.

Salome | Salomé, by Henri Regnault ( 1870 ).

After a further trip to Africa, abridged by the necessities of his position as a pensioner of the school of Rome, he painted Judith, then, in 1870, Salomé, and, as a work due from the Roman school, dispatched from Tangier the large canvas, Execution Without Hearing Under the Moorish Kings, in which the painter had played with the blood of the victim as if he were a jeweller toying with rubies.

The firm was the American publisher of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley ; The Yellow Book periodical, also illustrated by Beardsley ; and The Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane.

* La tragédie de Salomé, a 1907 ballet by Florent Schmitt

* Salomé ( 1910 film ), a short film by Ugo Falena

* Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( 1893, first performed in Paris 1896 )

Marcel Schwob corrected the original French version of Salomé on behalf of Oscar Wilde.

Among the theatre sets he has designed are sets for Riverdance, I'll Go On, Gate Theatre ( 1985 ), Samuel Beckett's Endgame ( 1991 ) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( 1998 ).

Tomei has also done substantial work in the theater, including taking lead roles on Broadway in Wait Until Dark ( 1998 ) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( 2003 ) alongside Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest as well as many Off-Broadway plays such as Tony Kushner's Slavs!

Though Oscar Wilde never published anything within its pages, it was linked to him because Beardsley had illustrated his Salomé and because he was on friendly terms with many of the contributors.

Ferlin had a minor career as an actor and debuted at the age of seventeen in Salomé by Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde originally wrote his Salomé in French.

In other cities, provoking a scandal appeared more risky, as Oscar Wilde would find out shortly after his relatively " successful " Parisian scandal ( Salomé — 1894, portraying the main character as a necrophile ):

Salome ( or in French: Salomé ) is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde.

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Ricketts was one of two well-known illustrators of Oscar Wilde's work, the other being Aubrey Beardsley who worked on Salomé.

In 1893 Oscar Wilde staged two plays: Salomé ( French version ) and Lady Windermere's Fan.

Wilde himself described Salomé as containing " refrains whose recurring motifs emphasis make it so like a piece of music and bind it together as a ballad ".

In Pall Mall Gazette of June 29, 1892 Wilde explained, why he had written Salomé in French:

Scholars like Nassaar point out that Wilde employs a number of the images favored by Israel's kingly poets and that the moon is meant to suggest the pagan goddess Cybele, who, like Salomé, was obsessed with preserving her virginity and thus took pleasure in destroying male sexuality.

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