Salomé
On a terrace outside Herod's banqueting hall everyone is looking at the moon and each of them reads it differently, while a prophet shouts up from the cistern he is kept in. The tetrarch's stepdaughter comes out for air, hears the voice, has the man brought up to be looked at, and is afterwards asked by Herod to dance, on an oath that she may name any payment she likes. Wilde wrote it in French; the Lord Chamberlain refused a licence for putting biblical figures on stage, and it was first performed in Paris while he was in prison.
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- reworks ↑ The Gospels
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