A head on a silver platter – rethinking John the Baptist and Oscar Wilde - CNN Belief
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By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor Charlottesville, Virginia (CNN)— As Oscar Wilde imagined it, the execution of John the Baptist was packed with love, lust, incest and murder. The Irish playwright spun the ancient biblical story into "Salome," a one-act tragedy written in 1863 in French that today is getting a fresh look thanks to [...]