"Another characteristic of modernity is the recreation of past works as a way to discuss and comprehend the present. Wilde, who had already reworked Narcissus and Faust myths in The Picture of Dorian Gray, choose a biblical thematic; his choice is not only by surprising fascination by Salome's figure - about which a critic called Salome-mania - in the proliferation of pieces about the fatal woman, but also to the decaying atmosphere of Tetrarch court." (Perpetuo)