[ilds] Oscar Wilde's Salome

[Bruce Redwine]

I stand corrected.  Wilde originally wrote Salome in French (1892).  The book, however, was a collaboration, as the title page indicates:  Salome:  A Tragedy in One Act:  Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas:  Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley (1894; New York:  Dover, 1967).  Douglas (“Bosie”) and Wilde were lovers.  According to the blurb, “Beardsley liked neither the play nor its author.”

Bruce





> On Jun 3, 2015, at 12:39 AM, mail at durrelllibrarycorfu.org wrote:
> 
> I don'y think it's accurate to say that Wilde and Beardsley "collaborated" on the play Salome - B was certainly involved, as a potential translator from W's French original, but he didn't actually collaborate. The illustrations for the book edition are, of course, another matter.
> RP 

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