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The story of the princess Salome (pronounced "Sah-loh-may"), stepdaughter of Herod, dates back to the book of Matthew in the Bible. In the original story, Salome dances for Herod's birthday feast, and he is so pleased with her dancing that he offers to give her anything she desires. Urged on by her mother, Salome requests the head of John the Baptist, and so she is responsible for the death of John. Since this...

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Oscar Wilde Biographies (10)

Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Willis) Wilde

8,879 words, approx. 30 pages

Together with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde transformed British drama in the late nineteenth century by expressing a new, "modern" sensibility. By the mid-nineteenth century, the British theater... Read more

Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Willis) Wilde

5,334 words, approx. 18 pages

Few writers have managed to remain world famous without the support of the schools. Oscar Wilde is one of them. Not generally regarded by academics as major or important, Wilde's work has figured ve... Read more

Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Willis) Wilde

8,675 words, approx. 29 pages

Oscar Wilde brightened up, for the English-speaking world at least, the stiff and somber final years of the nineteenth century. Like the other magnificent Irishmen, Joyce and Beckett, who would cast ... Read more

Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Willis) Wilde

11,416 words, approx. 39 pages

Oscar Wilde as man and artist is a study of extremes and contradictions. He approached life empirically, as Walter Pater had taught him at Oxford, but the pupil determined to pursue sensation beyond ... Read more

Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Willis) Wilde

5,500 words, approx. 19 pages

Although Oscar Wilde is best remembered as a dramatist, novelist, essayist, poet, brilliant conversationalist, and flamboyant personality, he was also a writer of fairy tales. Wilde's notoriety--inclu... Read more

Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Willis) Wilde

5,993 words, approx. 20 pages

Oscar Wilde 's literary reputation rests primarily on his later plays and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Although he published only fourteen short stories and six prose poems, a me... Read more

Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Willis) Wilde

5,821 words, approx. 20 pages

Oscar Wilde was a reform writer through the trenchant moral and social criticism in his works. Famous for his public speaking and wit, Wilde has often been accused of merely reproducing witty repartee... Read more

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

775 words, approx. 3 pages

The British author Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was part of the "art for art's sake" movement in English literature at the end of the 19th century. He is best known for his brilli... Read more

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

9,871 words, approx. 33 pages

Biography Essay] Together with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde transformed British drama in the late nineteenth century by expressing a new, "modern" sensibility. By the mid nineteenth century, the B... Read more

Oscar Wilde

6,204 words, approx. 21 pages

"Famous for his public speaking and wit, [Oscar] Wilde has often been accused of merely reproducing witty repartee in his plays, and the temptation to treat his work lightly is in large part due to hi... Read more