Performing Salome, revealing stories / edited by Clair Rowden.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Performing Salome, Revealing Stories; 1 Decadent Senses: The Dissemination of Oscar Wilde's Salomé across the Arts; 2 Visions of Salome, Visions of Wilde: Critical Readings of Oscar Wilde's Salome in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna; 3 Whose/Who's Salome? Natalia Trouhanowa, a Dancing Diva; 4 Salome's Slow Dance with the Lord Chamberlain, London 1909-10; 5 Seven Veils, Seven Rooms, Four Walls and Countless Contexts; 6 The Dirt on Salome.

7 Outrageous Salome: Grace and Fury in Carmelo Bene's Salomè and Ken Russell's Salome's Last DanceBibliography; Index.

This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard Strauss's - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-siècle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome as a common starting point, each chapter suggests new ways in which performing bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives and perspectives, and offer a range and breadth of source material and theoretical approaches. Rowden develops case studies dealing with censorship, reception, authorial reputation, appropria.

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