Salome A Tragedy in One Act |
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Author:
| Wilde, Oscar |
Translator:
| Donohue, Joseph |
Illustrator:
| Moser, Barry |
ISBN: | 978-0-8139-3191-3 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde's play Salomé (1893) was written originally in French. Joseph Donohue's new translation 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 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.
Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde's play Salomé (1893) was written originally in French. Joseph Donohue's new translation 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 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.