1. William Tydeman and Steven Price, Wilde: Salomé (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 174.
2. Petra Dierkes-Thrun, “‘The Brutal Music and the Delicate Text’? The Aesthetic Relationship between Wilde’s and Strauss’s Salomé Reconsidered,” Modern Language Quarterly 69, no. 3 (2008): 370.
3. See Philip E. Smith and Michael S. Helfand, Oscar Wilde’s Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
4. Julia Prewitt Brown, Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of Art (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997).
5. Kerry Powell, Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 58.