Salome: A Tragedy in One Act Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde with Sixteen Drawings

by Oscar Wilde

Publishers:

John Lane; Bodley Head

, 1912

Overview

This volume contains Oscar Wilde’s French-language drama, Salome. Wilde wrote the play hastily in his hotel room in Paris. The narrative follows Salome, the daughter of Herodias, who requests the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter. This edition features Aubrey Beardsley’s English translation.

Product Details

• Title: Salome: A Tragedy in One Act Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde with Sixteen Drawings
• Author: Oscar Wilde
• Publishers: John Lane, Bodley Head
• Print Publication Date: 1912
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Salome (Biblical figure) › Drama
• Resource ID: LLS:SALOME
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:31:35Z

About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Wilde’s parents were successful Dublin intellectuals, and their son showed his intelligence early by becoming fluent in French and German.