6/20/2023 0 Comments Salomé wildeSeeing this, Queen Herodias warns him, with more and more urgency, to stop looking at her. No matter what, she WILL kiss his mouth.Īt just that moment, Herod and his guests burst onto the terrace looking for Salomé. She falls in love with him, but Iokanaan rejects her. Even so, Salomé assures him that she will kiss his mouth. Salomé demands to meet this Iokanaan and, though it's against the rules, her wish is granted. She's more interested in the mysterious booming voice coming from a prison cell, the voice of Iokanaan, AKA John the Baptist. On the terrace, Salomé meets a captured young Syrian prince who is totally and completely hypnotised by her beauty. Salomé sneaks away from this banquet out to the terrace to escape the leery eyes of Herod and his entourage. On the night in question, King Herod and Queen Herodias are hosting a wild, drunken banquet. Judaea was a province of Ancient Rome during the reign of Julius Caesar. Salomé is the princess of Judaea, daughter of Queen Herodias, step-daughter to King Herod. A summary of Oscar Wilde's tragedy, which tells the Biblical story of Salomé, first published in 1891 in French.
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