EARLY TRANSLATIONS OF OSCAR WILDE’S SALOMÉ
Wilde’s play Salomé was published in the 1890s in two languages, and the bane of each was a lordly limitation.
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Back To The Wall
In a recent post I noted how Oscar Wilde and Sarah Bernhardt had posed in precisely the same place against the same background when having their photographs taken by Napoleon Sarony.
Wilde and Bernhardt was a curiosity; but now Lillie Langtry makes it a mystery.
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Here is an idle curiosity.
When Oscar Wilde had this photograph taken by Napoleon Sarony in 1882, not only was he standing against the same wall that Sarah Bernhardt had stood against—but he was standing in EXACTLY the same spot.
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