At the same time, it leads readers and audiences alike to rediscover perennially significant themes-of love, death, power, and individuality.Ī signed and numbered limited edition is available for $100.00. The resulting combination of words and images directly engages with Wilde’s characters and their story, setting a bold new standard for the melding of literary and pictorial excellence. Barry Moser is an artist who speaks the blunt yet fluent language of present-day communication through the penetrating gestural vocabulary of the graphic arts. This new Salomé is calculated to bring both readers and playgoers into close, disturbing confrontation with one of the most erotic and bloodiest sequences of testamentary lore.īrilliantly complementing Donohue’s unprecedented approach is a set of engravings by a master illustrator of our time. Donohue’s lucid vernacular transformation of Douglas’s safe, thee-and-thou faux-biblical language has the quality of a startling modern-dress remounting of an overly familiar classic play. And yet Douglas’s stilted, inaccurate version has somehow retained a long-standing place on the stage and in the study.

In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, and his two sons were born in 18. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where, a disciple of Pater, he founded an aesthetic cult. The play was first translated into English in 1894 by Wilde’s young friend Lord Alfred Douglas, but Wilde was far from pleased with the outcome. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. Presenting a colloquial and spare American English version of Wilde’s consciously stylized 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. 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.

Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé (1893) was written originally in French.

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