Jan 1, 2010

Salome | What Do I Read Next?

The Importance of Being Earnest, a play by Wilde produced in 1895, is generally considered Wilde's best dramatic work. It's cleverness and wit reveal a side of Wilde not as apparent in Salome.

Wilde's plays A Woman of No Importance and Lady Windermere's Fan, like Salome, deal with issues regarding women and sexual morality.

'‘The Angel in the House,’’ a 1942 essay by Virginia Woolf, discusses the traditional role of women during Woolf s Victorian childhood and her struggle to overcome that role's limitations.

The...