It probably consists of two acts (see First Act and Second Act).Īlthough it is sometimes thought to have been written in French, The Repairer of Reputations states that the play was translated into French, the French government seizing the translated copies that had just arrived in Paris (from where is not stated), after which there was great demand in Londo n to read it. According to the story The 7th Day The Yellow God Rests, the 1895 printing can be recognised by the golden salamander on its cover. The play is generally regarded as having been published in 1895, although some claim that it was written earlier and/or based on earlier works. The very banality and innocence of the first act only allowed the blow to fall afterwards with more awful effect." The Play It could not be judged by any known standard, yet, although it was acknowledged that the supreme note of art had been struck in The King in Yellow, all felt that human nature could not bear the strain nor thrive on words in which the essence of purest poison lurked. No definite principles had been violated in those wicked pages, no doctrine promulgated, no convictions outraged. It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out here, confiscated there, denounced by press and pulpit, censured even by the most advanced of literary anarchists. "When the French government seized the translated copies which had just arrived in Paris, London, of course, became eager to read it.
As first described, in The Repairer Of Reputations:
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