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| #3446897 in Books | Bloomsbury Academic | 2004-11-03 | 2004-11-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 228.60 x10.44 x6.00l,.70 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | ||1 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Important Investigation into Censorship|By NYLUX|This book explores a very important issue of modern literature: Censorship and its role in relation to two controversial plays, Oscar Wilde's "Salomé" and Andre Gide's "Saul", though there is a lot more material and discussion on Salome than Saul. Salomé was written originally in French by Wilde in 1891, rehers||"Perverse Midrash is a fascinating study, of both scholarly and critical depth, raising the question of why drama with biblical themes was banned in England and France during the Reformation era and remained banned until virtually our own time. This is of cour
Oscar Wilde's Salome and Andre Gide's Saul have been considered critically in the traditional contexts of authorial oeuvre, biography, or "thought." These plays have been treated with embarrassed respect, dealt with only because of the importance of their authors. That Wilde and Gide made use of biblical material seems to discomfit their critics; that they had done so at a time when biblical drama was prohibited has rarely been addressed. Traditional critical treatmen...
