Refiguring Oscar Wilde’s Salome.

While Oscar Wilde's delightfully-witty comedies of manners receive the most fanfare from the general public and much of academia, Wilde's most serious play Salome rightfully deserves an equal amount of attention. Written by emerging scholars, established scholars, and notable Wilde scholars at the top of the field, the far-ranging essays in this bookthe first collection solely on Wilde's Salome provide new readings of the play, allowing us to better assess how and why Salome either fits or does