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Salomania
Salomania was an artistic, cultural, and performance phenomenon of the early 20th century, characterized by a popular fascination with the historical figure of Salome and her imagined "Dance of the Seven Veils". While the term "Salomania" came into common usage after appearing in ''The New York Times'' in 1908, the phenomenon is associated with dance, theatre, opera, motion pictures, and other activities dating primarily from the first three decades of the twentieth century. Summarized at This mania arose in the wake of Oscar Wilde's 1891 play ''Salome (play), Salome'', and most especially, after Richard Strauss's 1905 operatic adaptation of Wilde's text, also called ''Salome (opera), Salome''. "'Salomania' was almost instantaneous in Western Europe, after the triumphant first performance of Strauss's opera (which received no less than thirty-eight curtain calls). Every country on the continent, indeed every city, had its own Salome-in-residence." The character of Salome as de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maude Allan
Maud Allan (born as either Beulah Maude Durrant or Ulah Maud Alma Durrant;Birthname given as Ulah Maud Alma DurrantMcConnell, Virginia A. ''Sympathy for the Devil: The Emmanuel Baptist Murders of Old San Francisco'', University of Nebraska Press (1 January 2005), page 294 27 August 1873 – 7 October 1956) was a Canadian dancer, chiefly noted for her ''Dance of the Seven Veils''. Though not perceived as an accomplished dancer, she performed in Oscar Wilde's play ''Salome'', dancing the title role topless, which garnered great attention. During World War I, she sued the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), British MP Noel Pemberton Billing for libel against allegations that she was a lesbian and that German agents were using her sexual orientation as grounds to blackmail her into spying for them on the British government. She was unsuccessful. The trial resurrected public disapproval of Oscar Wilde, whose own failed libel trial had initiated his arrest, conviction and impriso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
