Oscar Wilde is a playwright's playwright. Literally. He wrote only five plays. At least twice that many plays have been written about him. Wilde's best-known work is "The Importance of Being Earnest" ...

Oscar's father and mother on trial -- Oscar Wilde as a schoolboy -- Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford -- Formative influences: Oscar's poems -- Oscar 's quarrel with Whistler: marriage -- Oscar ...

Cover, endpaper, and text design by Valenti Angelo. Printed on double leaves with uncut fold at top. Issued in case. SALOME : A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF OSCAR WILDE BY LORD ...