Introduction -- Dancing on the threshold : Wilde's Salome between symbolist, decadent, and modernist aesthetics -- "The brutal music and the delicate text"? Richard Strauss's operatic modernism in Salome -- Perverts in court : Maud Allan's the vision of Salome and the Pemberton-Billing trial -- Alla Nazimova's Salome : an historical phantasy by Oscar Wilde -- Portraits of the artist as a gay man and Salome as a feminist icon : Wilde and Salome in popular culture since the 1980s.