Other Fiction Wilde, Oscar: La Sainte Courtisane (in English), v1, 25 Sept 2007.

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Oscar Wilde: La Sainte Courtisane
Or
The Woman Covered in Jewels--A Fragment
1894
With a Preface by Robert Ross.

Despite the title, this play was written in English.

A brief fragment in the same symbolist style as 'Salome', and set in the Egyptian desert. The courtesan, Myrrhina sets about tempting a hermit. He converts her to Christianity. But she converts him to sensuality.

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