Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act
                                            
                            By Oscar Wilde
                            
                                20 Aug, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who,
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                                                Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils. Less