![]() ![]() They both competently restate essential interpretations and travel in exciting new directions. The fifteen essays, from established and emergent scholar, range over a cornucopia of subjects… Far from producing confusion, this scholarly eclecticism produces some fruitful and exciting juxtapositions… The range of essays in the volume serves both to locate the play in its original intellectual, aesthetic and theatrical context, and to suggest the complex possibilities of twentieth and twenty-first century readings and performances of the text without imposing an erroneously singular or homogeneous overview on this elusive play." – in: New Theatre Quarterly "The collected essays give a comprehensive view of the play and its adaptations. "The essays are paired… thematically in ‘common scholarly conversations surrounding Salome and Wilde’s work, as a whole’, and this – fulfilling the aim of the ‘Rodopi Dialogue’ series – enables an organized, but polyvocal reading of the book itself, and more importantly, re-engagement with the play. ![]()
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