Rowden Clair

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-siècle 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. Rowden develops case studies dealing with censorship, reception, authorial reputation, appropriation, embodiment and performance, as well as exploring performance as a cultural practice.