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Article: Wilde's 'Salome.'.(Oscar Wilde's play)
- Article from:
- The Explicator
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
- Author:
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Lady Windermere's Fan was Oscar Wilde's first mature play, and it established him overnight as a successful playwright. It also created in the minds of playgoers an association between Wilde and the fan. Soon afterward, Wilde wrote a second play, Salome, and he included in it eight references to a fan. The references constitute Wilde's signature - his constant reminder to reader and audience that he is the author of this new play. But the fan in Salome also serves a functional and symbolic purpose, much like the one in Lady Windermere's Fan.
In Salome the fan is associated with all four main characters. The first association is with Salome herself at the ...
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