Perverse Midrash —— Oscar Wilde, André Gide,and Censorship of Biblical Drama

----- 邪恶的米德拉什·奥斯卡·王尔德，安德烈·基德和圣经戏剧的审查

ISBN: 9780826416216 出版年：2004 页码：193 Katherine Brown Downey Bloomsbury Publishing

Oscar Wilde's Salome and Andre Gide's Saul have been considered critically in the traditional contexts of authorial oeuvre, biography, or "thought." These plays have been treated with embarrassed respect, dealt with only because of the importance of their authors. That Wilde and Gide made use of biblical material seems to discomfit their critics; that they had done so at a time when biblical drama was prohibited has rarely been addressed. Traditional critical treatments seek to smooth over the plays' aberrant qualities. This study takes them seriously as aberrations and investigates Wilde's and Gide's claims that these plays are works of faith, by considering them as participating in the history of biblical drama.