# Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act

**Author:** Oscar Wilde
**Tags:** Drama, Tragedies, Salome (Biblical figure)
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**Added:** 10.07.2026
**URL:** https://samolit.com/books/96397

## Description

Oscar Wilde's Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act plunges into a sensuous and unsettling reinterpretation of the biblical tale. Set on a moonlit terrace in Herod's palace, the young Princess Salomé becomes dangerously fixated on Jokanaan, the imprisoned prophet. Rebuffed by his righteous condemnation, her desire twists into a chilling obsession. She manipulates her lust-ridden stepfather, King Herod, into a deadly promise following her mesmerizing Dance of the Seven Veils. What she demands in return is an act of shocking depravity, unleashing a chain of events steeped in forbidden passion, vengeful lust, and ultimate doom. Wilde's work, originally penned in French and famously banned in England, explores the destructive nature of unchecked desire, the power of the female gaze, and the dark consequences of a world steeped in decadence and moral transgression. This one-act tragedy remains a potent and disturbing exploration of human depravity.