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Performing Salome, Revealing Stories (Hardcover, New edition)
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Performing Salome, Revealing Stories (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
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With its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February
1896, Oscar Wilde's Salome took on female embodied form that
signalled the start of 'her' phenomenal journey through the history
of the arts in the twentieth century. 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-siecle 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. The first chapter draws on the field of comparative
literature to investigate the inter-artistic interpretations of
Salome in a period that straddles the end of the nineteenth century
and the beginning of the Modernist era. This chapter sets the tone
for the rest of the volume, which develops specific case studies
dealing with censorship, reception, authorial reputation,
appropriation, embodiment and performance. As well as the Viennese
premiere of Wilde's play, embodied performances of Salome from the
period before the First World War are considered, offering insight
into the role and agency of performers in the production and
complex negotiation of meaning inherent in the role of Salome. By
examining important productions of Strauss's Salome since 1945, and
more recent film interpretations of Wilde's play, the last chapters
explore performance as a cultural practice that reinscribes and
continuously reinvents the ideas, icons, symbols and gestures that
shape both the performance itself, its reception and its cultural
meaning.
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