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Originally written in French, Salomé was published in English translation in 1884, and first staged in Paris in 1986 while Wilde was in prison. It was not staged in England during Wilde's lifetime due to a law forbidding the theatrical depiction of biblical characters. The one-act play is Wilde's treatment of the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Judaea, and daughter of Herodias. At her mother's behest, and to the dismay of her stepfather's, she requests the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the "Dance of the Seven Veils".
John Lane 1884
Translated into: Bulgarian
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