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Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome. Salome dances the Dance of the Seven Veils so well that she receives a boon from her stepfather Herod Antipas. Much to his dismay and her mother's delight she requests the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter. Though John is a favorite of Herod and under his protection, Herod cannot rescind his boon.
Wilde originally wrote the play in French,
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"Salomé" is an 1891 play in one act by Oscar Wilde. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854—1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant attire, Wilde was a proponent of aestheticism and wrote in a variety of forms including poetry, fiction, and drama. He was famously imprisoned for homosexual acts from 1895 to 1897 and died at the...
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Cover girl: Musical about a dancer who unexpectedly becomes a magazine cover model.
Tonight and every night: Musical about life in war-time London which is a tribute to those who endured the nightly bombing raids.
Gilda: The wife of a casino owner in Buenos Aires is introduced to her husbands new casino manager, a man from her past.
Miss Sadie Thompson: About a free-spirited girl arriving in Samoa where she arouses the interest of the Marines based...
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The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last, doomed decade, the 1890s. They remain among the most-loved, and most-quoted, of all drama in the English language. Along with Salomé, his darkly decadent dramatization of the Bible story, these immortal plays have continued...