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Salomé

Gustave Moreau’s 1876 SalomĂ© dansant devant HĂ©rode (Salome dancing before Herod) descriptions of which in Joris-Karl Huysmans’s Ă€ rebours (Against Nature) had stimulated Wilde’s interest in the subject.
The Only Known Typescript of Wilde’s FRENCH Salome

I have somewhat of a preoccupation with the use of primary sources, and sources don’t come any more primary than the recent discoveries of Wildeana that were made at the Free Library of Philadelphia prior to the Oscar Wilde season early this year.

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