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Philip Hoare
256 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780715640821
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Company
Publication date: Not specified
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The first production of Oscar Wilde's Salome in 1918 touched off a firestorm in London when the play's lead, exotic dancer Maud Allan, was denounced as belonging to the Cult of the Clitoris -- a feminine variation on the Cult of Wilde, the mark of...
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Philip Hoare
256 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780715640821
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Company
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The first production of Oscar Wilde's Salome in 1918 touched off a firestorm in London when the play's lead, exotic dancer Maud Allan, was denounced as belonging to the Cult of the Clitoris -- a feminine variation on the Cult of Wilde, the mark of...