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9780822216490

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde - Acting Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822216490

  • ISBN10:

    0822216493

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-03-31
  • Publisher: DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE INC

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THE STORY: In early 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left a card at Wilde's club bearing the phrase posing somdomite. Wilde sued the Marquess for criminal libel. The defense denounced Wilde's art and literature as immoral, leading the prosecuting attorney to declare, It would appear that what is on trial is not Lord Queensberry but Mr. Wilde's art! In the end Queensberry was acquitted, and evidence that had been gathered against Wilde compelled the Crown to prosecute him for gross indecency with male persons. With Wilde's arrest, his hit plays running in London's West End were forced to close, and Wilde was reduced to penury. A second trial ended in a hung jury with Wilde's impassioned defense of the love that dare not speak its name, prompting a third trial. In the third and decisive trial, Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment at hard labor. He was separated forever from his wife and children, and wrote very little for the rest of his life. In addition to Wilde, Douglas and Queensberry, characters ranging from Queen Victoria to London's rent boys, to a present-day academic are assembled to explore how history is made and how it can be so timely revisited in the theatre.

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