History Theatre / Salome

* FirstPeriodPanic: In the 2018 Salzburg Festival production, this is implied to be the immediate trigger for Salome's fleeing from the party: She spends most of her first scene deliberately keeping her back to the wall, then turns around to reveal a red stain on her dress.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Narraboth loves Salome. Herodes loves (or at least, lusts after) Salome. Salome loves [[ChasteHero Jochanaan]]. No healthy relationships here.

* SpoiledBrat: Salome is implied to have shades of this.

** When she hears the executioner's sword fall to the ground, Salome thinks the executioner cannot bring himself to kill Jochanaan, and her reaction has all the makings of a classic temper tantrum.

* VillainousBreakdown: Salome has one when the executioner drops his sword and seemingly hesitates to behead Jochanaan, at which point Salome angrily calls him a coward and runs around demanding that Herod's soldiers be sent to finish the job. This is implied to be the point in the play when Salome goes completely insane.

* HonorBeforeReason: Herod keeps his promise to Salome, even though he knows it will get him into major hot water. (Well, it's either this trope or AllMenArePerverts.)
* IGaveMyWord: Herod is terrified at the prospect of putting Jokanaan to death, but all Salome has to do is remind him that he swore an oath to give her anything she asked for, and he has no choice but to obey.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Salome expresses her preference for dancing barefooted, which horrifies her stepfather when he realizes it means she will dance over the recently spilled blood.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Salome originally was just a bit, nameless character who was influenced by her mother to order John the Baptist (Jochanaan)'s head on a silver platter as vengeance for calling out of Herod's somewhat incestuous relationship. Here, she masterminded the death of Jochanaan without any of her mother's influences because she's being ignored by him. This also gave Herod a bit of AdaptationalHeroism, who retaliated with [[AdaptationalKarma executing her]] after [[EvenEvilHasStandards being creeped out with what he did with Jochanaan's head]], when originally he did nothing, while his wife and Salome got away scots free.

* OffingTheOffspring: Salome's eventual fate, because [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Herod is appalled]] by her necrophilia in the end and orders his soldiers to kill her.

* OffingTheOffspring: Salome's eventual fate, because [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Herod is appalled]] by her necrophilia in the end.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Salome expresses her preference for dancing barefooted, which horrifies her father when he realizes it means she will dance over the recently spilled blood.

* ParentalIncest: Technically, Herod is only her stepdad, but that doesn't make the attraction any less {{squick}}y.
* PlayingGertrude: There is often an interesting aversion in which the soloist playing Salome is often far ''older'' than the soloist playing Herodias, her mother. This is probably because Salome is a central role and Herodias is at most a bit-part: older opera singers tend to have the prestige and clout that gets them the starring roles, and newbies are relegated to supporting roles. Therefore, as noted in the Creator/{{BBC}} production of ''Salome'', we get the incongruity of a [[FanDisservice fifty-year old daughter dancing a salacious striptease]] in front of her enthralled stepfather and twenty-something mother...

''Salome'' caused renewed controversy when it was adapted into an opera by Richard Strauss. The opera's libretto follows the German translation of Wilde's French word for word (though abridged in some places). There have also been three film adaptations: [[Film/Salome1923 a 1923 silent film]]; 1988's ''Salome's Last Dance'' (a Ken Russell film that presents the play as a ShowWithinAShow being put on for Wilde himself by the staff of a London brothel); and a straight filmed version of the play as directed by Creator/AlPacino (with Pacino as King Herod and the title role played by Creator/JessicaChastain in her film debut). You may also recognize that a film adaptation of it was the ill-fated intended comeback film from ''Film/SunsetBoulevard''.

''Salome'' caused renewed controversy when it was adapted into an opera by Richard Strauss. The opera's libretto follows the German translation of Wilde's French word for word (though abridged in some places). There have also been two film adaptations: [[Film/Salome1923 a 1923 silent film]] and 1988's ''Salome's Last Dance''. The latter is a Ken Russell film that presents the play as a ShowWithinAShow being put on for Wilde himself by the staff of a London brothel. It was also done for cinemas as a straight filmed version of the play as directed by Creator/AlPacino (with Pacino as King Herod and the title role played by Creator/JessicaChastain in her film debut). You may also recognize that a film adaptation of it was the ill-fated intended comeback film from ''Film/SunsetBoulevard''.

''Salome'' caused renewed controversy when it was adapted into an opera by Richard Strauss. The opera's libretto follows the German translation of Wilde's French word for word (though abridged in some places). There have also been two film adaptations: [[Film/Salome1923 a 1923 silent film]] and 1988's ''Salome's Last Dance''. The latter is a Ken Russell film that presents the play as a ShowWithinAShow being put on for Wilde himself by the staff of a London brothel. It was also done for cinemas as a straight filmed version of the play as directed by Creator/AlPacino (with Pacino as King Herod and the title role played by Creator/JessicaChastain in her first film). You may also recognize it as the ill-fated intended comeback film from ''Film/SunsetBoulevard''.

''Salome'' caused renewed controversy when it was adapted into an opera by Richard Strauss. The opera's libretto follows the German translation of Wilde's French word for word (though abridged in some places). There have also been two film adaptations: [[Film/Salome1923 a 1923 silent film]] and 1988's ''Salome's Last Dance''. The latter is a Ken Russell film that presents the play as a ShowWithinAShow being put on for Wilde himself by the staff of a London brothel. It was also done for cinemas as a straight filmed version of the play as directed by Creator/AlPacino (with Pacino as King Herod and the title role played by Creator/JessicaChastain in her first film).

''Salome'' caused renewed controversy when it was adapted into an opera by Richard Strauss. The opera's libretto follows the German translation of Wilde's French word for word (though abridged in some places). There have also been two film adaptations: a 1923 silent film and 1988's ''Salome's Last Dance''. The latter is a Ken Russell film that presents the play as a ShowWithinAShow being put on for Wilde himself by the staff of a London brothel. It was also done for cinemas as a straight filmed version of the play as directed by Creator/AlPacino (with Pacino as King Herod and the title role played by Creator/JessicaChastain in her first film).

** Whenever she doesn’t get what she wants (e.g. the head of Jochanaan), her typical response is to repeat the same demand over and over again until the refuser gives in, and if that doesn’t work, she will not hesitate to toy with and exploit a man’s feelings for her (Narraboth) or even have the refuser killed (Jochanaan) in order to get her way.

SpoiledBrat: Salome is implied to have shades of this.

After Salome refuses to eat and drink with him, Herod finally begs Salome to dance for him. He promises to reward her with her heart's desire — even if it were one-half of his kingdom. Salome, once she gains Herod's vow to reward her, performs the Dance of the Seven Veils. Herod, after her dance, is ready to grant her soul's desire. She asks for the head of Jokanaan in a silver charger. To this, Herod agrees, although reluctantly. When the severed head is brought to Salome, she kisses its lips in triumph.