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Salome
Oscar Wilde
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Description for Salome
Hardcover. Translator(s): Donohue, Joseph. Num Pages: 104 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 434.
Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé (1893) was written originally in French. Joseph Donohue’s new translation of the horrific New Testament story has recast Wilde’s shockingly radical drama in the natural idiomatic language of our own day. Presenting a colloquial and spare American English version of Wilde’s consciously stylised French, Donohue’s approach gives full value to the Irish author’s dark ruminations on evil and perversity in a world on the brink of a new, unsettling Christian dispensation.
The play was first translated into English in 1894 by Wilde’s young friend Lord Alfred Douglas, but Wilde was ... Read more
Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé (1893) was written originally in French. Joseph Donohue’s new translation of the horrific New Testament story has recast Wilde’s shockingly radical drama in the natural idiomatic language of our own day. Presenting a colloquial and spare American English version of Wilde’s consciously stylised French, Donohue’s approach gives full value to the Irish author’s dark ruminations on evil and perversity in a world on the brink of a new, unsettling Christian dispensation.
The play was first translated into English in 1894 by Wilde’s young friend Lord Alfred Douglas, but Wilde was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813931913
SKU
V9780813931913
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Ref
99-37
About Oscar Wilde
Joseph Donohue is a theatre historian and professor of English at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. He is the author of numerous books and articles on British and Irish theatre and drama, including Dramatic Character in the English Romantic Age and Theatre in the Age of Kean. He is editor and part author of The Cambridge History of British ... Read more
Reviews for Salome
“ Donohue’s translation modernizes Salomé in an accessible style which might attract a new generation to the play’s audacity. Barry Moser’s powerful illustrations, too, are striking.” - Joseph Bristow, Times Literary Supplement