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    Salome (French: Salomé, pronounced [salɔme]) is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original version of the play was first published in French in 1893;...
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  • Wilde Salomé is a 2011 American docudrama written, directed by, and starring Al Pacino. An exploration of Oscar Wilde's 1891 play Salomé, the film premiered...
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  • Salomé is a 2013 American drama film edited from the 2011 film Wilde Salomé, written and directed by Al Pacino, and starring Pacino and Jessica Chastain...
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    of Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for Oscar Wilde's 1891 tragedy, Salome. Other Salome films include: Salomé (1918), starring Theda Bara in the title...
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    Salomé is a 1922-23 silent film directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova, who also stars. It is an adaptation of the 1891 Oscar Wilde play of the...
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    Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout...
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    Oscar Wilde's tomb is located in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. It took nine to ten months to complete by the sculptor Jacob Epstein, with an...
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    Salome by Oscar Wilde, a play written in 1891 and first produced in 1896, has been analysed by numerous literary critics, and has prompted numerous derivatives...
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    particularly concerning his native Ireland. He was the father of Oscar Wilde. William Wilde was born at Kilkeevin, near Castlerea, in County Roscommon, the...
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    frequently heard as a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos. Oscar Wilde originally wrote his Salomé in French. Strauss saw the Lachmann version of the play...
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    This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for The...
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    Kingsbury Wilde (26 September 1852 – 13 March 1899) was an Irish journalist and poet of the Victorian era. He was the older brother of Oscar Wilde. Willie...
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    Oscar Beresford Wilde; 3 November 1886 – 10 October 1967) was an English author and translator. He was the second-born son of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde...
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    Dance of the Seven Veils (category Oscar Wilde)
    veils" originates with Wilde's 1891 play Salomé. Wilde was influenced by earlier French writers who had transformed the image of Salome into an incarnation...
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    Cyril Holland (redirect from Cyril Wilde)
    Cyril Holland (born Cyril Wilde, 5 June 1885 – 9 May 1915) was the older of the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland...
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    Constance Mary Wilde (née Lloyd; 2 January 1858 – 7 April 1898) was an Irish writer. She was the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of...
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  • Although most of the action is a verbatim performance of Oscar Wilde's 1891 play Salome, which is itself based on a story from the New Testament, there...
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    Lord Alfred Douglas (category Oscar Wilde)
    Douglas had praised Wilde's play Salome in the Oxford magazine The Spirit Lamp, of which he was editor. Wilde had originally written Salomé in French, and...
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    Merlin Holland (category Oscar Wilde)
    1945) is a British biographer and editor. He is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde, whose life he has researched and written about extensively. Born in...
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    Robbie Ross (category Oscar Wilde)
    journalist, art critic and art dealer, best known for his relationship with Oscar Wilde, to whom he was a devoted friend, lover, and literary executor. A grandson...
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  • 1906 interpretation of Oscar Wilde's play, produced by Maud Allan La tragédie de Salomé [fr], a 1907 ballet by Florent Schmitt Salomé (Mariotte), a 1908 French...
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
    The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue...
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    Salomé is a 1908 opera in one act by Antoine Mariotte to a libretto based on the 1891 French play Salome by Oscar Wilde. However, that work was itself...
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    The Remarkable Rocket (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
    and Other Tales which is a collection of five fairytales written by Oscar Wilde. The Remarkable Rocket is a parody of aristocratic vanity and masculine...
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    A House of Pomegranates (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
    fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection...
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    The Canterville Ghost (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
    "The Canterville Ghost" is a humorous short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court...
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    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
    collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It includes: "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" "The...
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  • Oscar Wilde's life and death have generated numerous biographies. Lord Alfred Douglas wrote two books about his relationship with Wilde: Oscar Wilde and...
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    (1904) The Climax from the illustrations for Salomé, 1893–4 Tailpiece or Cul de Lampe, cover for Wilde's Salomé, 1893–4 How Morgan le Fay gave a Shield to...
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    The Peacock Skirt (category Adaptations of works by Oscar Wilde)
    reproduced as a wood engraving in the first English edition of Oscar Wilde's one-act play Salome in 1894. In later editions it was photo-mechanically reproduced...
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