Salome by Oscar Wilde

Salome

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas (Translator)

160 pages first pub 1891 (editions)

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Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned Salomé from the national stage. Symbolist poets and writers — Stéphane Mallarmé and Maurice Maeterlinck among them — defended the play's literary br...

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