SHE wants to kiss his lips, and boy does she get what she wants. There’s just no stopping Salome, the prickly princess and title character of Oscar Wilde’s bizarre 1891 play “Salome.” Berkeley’s ...
Oscar Wilde originally wrote Salome in French because he predicted it would be quickly banned in Victorian-era England. (He was correct.) Wilde revised an English translation, but he never saw his ...
It falls to an Irishman, Oscar Wilde, to have crafted one of the quintessential works of fin de siècle decadence. His 1896 drama Salome crowned centuries of speculation around the Biblical princess, ...