Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet John the Baptist, who publicly denounces the ...

Biblical characters and a highly eroticised depiction of young womanhood caused Salome to be banned in London. It outraged New Yorkers and, although championed in Vienna by Mahler, it was banned there ...

The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Two famous Irish playwrights wrote drama in French: Beckett to purge himself of blarney, and Wilde to tie the exotic fire of Salome to a ...