The Illustrated Salomé in English & French (with Active Table of Contents) by Oscar Wilde

Author:Oscar Wilde
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

HEROD. She is monstrous, your daughter, she is altogether monstrous. In truth, what she has done is a great crime. I am sure that it is a crime against an unknown God.

HERODIAS. I approve of what my daughter has done. And I will stay here now.

HEROD [rising]. Ah! There speaks the incestuous wife! Come! I will not stay here. Come, I tell you. Surely some terrible thing will befall. Manasseh, Issa-char, Ozias, put out the torches. I will not look at things. I will not suffer things to look at me. Put out the torches! Hide the moon! Hide the stars! Let us hide ourselves in our palace, Herodias. I begin to be afraid.

[The slaves put out the torches. The stars disappear. A great black cloud crosses the moon and conceals it completely. The stage becomes very dark. The Tetrarch begins to climb the staircase.]

THE VOICE OF SALOMÉ. Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Jokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth. There was a bitter taste on thy lips. Was it the taste of blood? . . . But perchance it is the taste of love. They say that love hath a bitter taste. . . . But what of that? what of that? I have kissed thy mouth, Jokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth.

[A moonbeam falls on Salomé, covering her with light.]

HEROD [turning round and seeing Salomé] Kill that woman!

[The soldiers rush forward and crush beneath their shields Salomé, daughter of Herodias, Princess of Judea.]

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