{"product_id":"salome-tragedy-one-aubrey-beardsley","title":"Salome: A Tragedy in One Act","description":"  Few works in English literature have so peculiar a history as Oscar Wilde's play Salome. Written originally in French in 1892 and ridiculed on its publication translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie himself) and again heaped with scorn it has survived for 75 years served as the text (in abridged form) for Richard Strauss' world-famous opera and emerged as an acknowledged masterwork of the Aesthetic movement of fin de siècle England.The illustrations that Aubrey Beardsley prepared for the first English edition have no less strange a story. Beardsley liked neither the play nor its author. Yet it inspired some of his finest work. It is an open question as to how suited the drawings actually are to the text that Wilde wrote. Yet the two the play and the Beardsley illustrations have nevertheless become so identified with each other as to be inseparable.This edition reprints the first edition (1894) text with A Note on 'Salome' by Robert Ross. The Beardsley drawings it superbly reproduces (mostly from a rare early portfolio) include not only the 10 full-page illustrations the front and back cover designs the title and List of Illustrations page decorations and the cul de lampe from the original edition but also three drawings that were not used an alternate cover sketch and the drawing entitled J'ai baisé ta bouche Iokanaan which Beardsley did earlier for The Studio. Furthermore all of the illustrations are reproduced in their original state not as expurgated in the first and most subsequent editions. \t\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/b\u003e 128 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dover Publications (June 1 1967)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0486218309\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 978-0486218304\u003c\/p\u003e                                                                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e    Product Dimensions:     \u003c\/b\u003e    8.2 x 0.2 x 10.8 inches    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShipping Weight:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.8 ounces \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graphic Design","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":30934174040167,"sku":"486218309","price":23.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0265\/5879\/1783\/products\/51HQFte0S_2BL_2c71039f-a238-4ea7-b169-03f02420ca37.jpg?v=1571712341","url":"https:\/\/dreams5s.myshopify.com\/products\/salome-tragedy-one-aubrey-beardsley","provider":"Dreams5s","version":"1.0","type":"link"}