Salome (French)

Publisher Marketing: [Une grande terrasse dans le palais d'Herode donnant sur la salle de festin. Des soldats sont accoudes sur le balcon. A droite il y a un enorme escalier. A gauche, au fond, une ancienne citerne entouree d'un mur de bronze vert. Clair de lune.] LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Comme la princesse Salome est belle ce soir! LE PAGE D'HERODIAS. Regardez la lune. La lune a l'air tres etrange. On dirait une femme qui sort d'un tombeau. Elle ressemble a une femme morte. On dirait qu'elle cherche des morts. Contributor Bio:  Wilde, Oscar Oscar Wilde was a Victorian-era British author and playwright. In his youth, Wilde became attached to the Aesthetic Movement, which emphasized the appreciation of the aesthetic value of cultural creations above social or political purposes, and this philosophy influenced his work throughout his career. The themes of art and beauty are particularly present in his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, , and in his two most popular dramatic works, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. A quarrel with the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde s lover, Lord Alfred, resulted in Wilde s arrest and imprisonment for gross indecency. Wilde died in 1900, penniless and in exile, as a result of cerebral meningitis contracted while in prison.