1917 Salome, La Sainte Courtisane, A Florentine Tragedy

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Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Fifth edition. A collection of plays from Oscar Wilde, an Irish poet and playwright renowned for his work in the early 1890s. The plays included are: Salome Depicting the seduction of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) by Salome, the step-daughter of Herod Antipas and her dance of the seven veils. La Sainte Courtisane An unfinished play left in a taxi cab by the author and never completed. First published by Wilde's literary executor in 1908. A Florentine Tragedy A fragment of a never completed play concerning Simone, a wealthy 16th century Florentine merchant who finds his wife in the arms of a local prince.