Salome: a tragedy in one act. By: Oscar Wilde, Drawings By: Aubrey Beardsley: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 - 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent ...