Claim: Oscar Wilde wrote in English.

Salome -LRB- French : Salomé , -LSB- salome -RSB- -RRB- is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde .  The original 1891 version of the play was in French . Three years later an English translation was published . The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome , stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas , who , to her stepfather 's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias , requests the head of Jokanaan -LRB- John the Baptist -RRB- on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils .