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Salomé
Oscar Wilde
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Wilde and the Legend of Salomé in the Nineteenth Century
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In the years before John the Baptist was widely venerated as a saint, who was assigned guilt for his death?
Herod
The Roman rulership
Herodias
The Jewish people
2
of 5
Heinrich Heine asks, "Why would a woman want the head of any man she did not ___?".
Love
Fear
Hate
Envy
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of 5
In Huysmans's novel, the protagonist A Rebours considers Moreau's painting of Salomé to be the spirit of ___ incarnate.
Mortality
Decadence
Zealotry
Arrogance
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of 5
___ was a symbolist playwright whose characters spoke with simplistic deliberateness, which some critics likened to childish prattle.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Gustave Moreau
J.C. Heywood
Gustave Flaubert
5
of 5
Wilde once observed, "Of course, I plagiarize. It is the privilege of the ___."
Living
Envious
Young
Appreciative
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