http://hdl.handle.net/2328/108 2013-05-23T15:25:45Z 2013-05-23T15:25:45Z Daalder, Joost http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25419 2013-05-13T02:02:30Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Re-discovery of a Passage by Robert Ross on "Salome" Authors: Daalder, Joost Abstract: A further note to the author's previous article "A History of Confusion" regarding Robert Ross's translation of Oscar Wilde's "Salome", wherein Ross confirms that the translation is indeed new and owes nothing to the earlier translation of Lord Douglas.

2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Daalder, Joost http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25415 2013-05-13T02:02:51Z 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A History of Confusion: The Two Earliest English Translations of Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” Authors: Daalder, Joost Abstract: A translation of Salome from the original French into English by Lord Alfred Douglas has been persistently confused with a later, drastically overhauled version - virtually a new translation - first published in 1906 and almost certainly prepared by Robert Ross, Wilde's life-long friend.

2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Daalder, Joost http://hdl.handle.net/2328/811 2013-05-13T01:58:52Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Which is the Most Authoritative Early Translation of Wilde's "Salomé"? Authors: Daalder, Joost Abstract: Oscar Wilde originally wrote and published his now famous and highly regarded play "Salomé" in French (Paris and London, 1893). A very inaccurate translation of it into English, by Lord Alfred Douglas, led to much wrangling between Douglas and Wilde, who was profoundly disappointed with Douglas's work. So far, it has been assumed that this translation, which appeared while Wilde was still alive (he died in 1900), must despite all its faults be regarded as in essence 'the' English translation. What has not been realised, however, is that Robert Ross, Wilde's literary executor, ensured that, a few years later, a more accurate translation of "Salomé" was published in a small volume called "Salome: A Tragedy in One Act Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde" (London and New York, 1906), and one much better again under the title "Salome: A Tragedy in One Act Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde with Sixteen Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley" (London and New York, 1912). The 1912 text provides by far the best translation of Wilde's French; it should be regarded as the most authoritative translation of Salomé available.

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