Download or view the Class 1 Reading and Discussion Guide.

"Salome" - the play by Oscar Wilde.   

Please read the entire play in preparation for class discussion. 

Supplementary Material

To download or read the play online:  click on one of the links below:

• Salome - text without illustrations (28 pages)

• Salomé    Text of the play with interspersed Aubrey Beardsley illustrations (Project Gutenberg); includes the introductory note by Robert Ross

• Salomé    Text of the play with interspersed Aubrey Beardsley illustrations (Wikisource)

• Aubrey Beardsley illustrations  (16 pages)

Non-English texts of the play:

• German translation by Hedwig Lachmann, with Aubrey Beardsley illustrations, the basis for the libretto of the Richard Strauss opera  (62 pages) 

• Original French version  (31 pages)