Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Dancing on the Threshold: Wilde's Salomé between Symbolist, Decadent, and Modernist Aesthetics -- 2. "The Brutal Music and the Delicate Text"? Richard Strauss's Operatic Modernism in Salome -- 3. Perverts in Court: Maud Allan's The Vision of Salomé and the Pemberton-Billing Trial -- 4. Alla Nazimova's Salomé: An Historical Phantasy by Oscar Wilde -- 5. Portraits of the Artist as a Gay Man and Salomé as a Feminist Icon: Wilde and Salomé in Popular Culture since the 1980s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.