The play depicts the events leading to the execution of Iokanaan ( John the Baptist) at the instigation of Salome, step-daughter of Herod Antipas, and her death on Herods orders. Indeed Wilde's capacity to connect convention to invention is fundamental both to his success as a dramatist and to his interest in what symbolism in general and the Salome story in particular had to offer. Salome by Oscar Wilde, a play written in 1891 and first produced in 1896, has been analysed by numerous literary critics, and has prompted numerous derivatives. To describe it as a "symbolist drama" is neither untrue nor all of the necessary truth, for Wilde's play is both related to that movement and critical of it. Oscar Wilde’s one-act play Salom (published 1893 first performed 1896) was translated by Hedwig Lachmann as the libretto for Richard Strauss’s one-act opera of the same name (first produced 1905), in which Herod is portrayed as lusting after Salome, while Salome, in her turn, desires John the Baptist she. The persisting difficulty is one of deciding just what kind of play this is and what Wilde sought to achieve by writing it. A radical split has evolved in critical discussion between those, like the anonymous writer for the Pall Mall Gazette, who regard the play as a variant on previous and superior work on the Salome theme and those, like Ellmann, who regard it as "anticipatory rather than derivative," and praise it for its incipient modernism.
The odd combination of historical and avant-garde features that caused it to be banned by the Lord Chamberlain has provided recurring but different problems for others more favorably disposed toward the play. Referred to by actor/director Al Pacino as his most personal project ever, the unconventional feature documentary 'Wilde Salome' invites audiences into Pacino's private world, as he explores the. Although Wilde's Salome (1893) has justly been described as "the only completely successful symbolist drama to come out of the English theatre, has haunted the European imagination ever since," it is a play that has yet to receive a convincing performance on the English stage.
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