Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar WildeTHE 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 Wild |
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User Review - Devil_llama - LibraryThingAn interesting bit of minutiae, where the play centers almost exclusively on the trial, which removes a lot of the interesting details of Wilde's life and relationships as his situation deteriorated ... Read full review
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User Review - quantum_flapdoodle - LibraryThingAn interesting bit of minutiae, where the play centers almost exclusively on the trial, which removes a lot of the interesting details of Wilde's life and relationships as his situation deteriorated ... Read full review
Contents
Section 1 | 4 |
Section 2 | 5 |
Section 3 | 6 |
Section 4 | 9 |
Section 5 | 10 |
Section 6 | 13 |
Section 7 | 16 |
Section 8 | 49 |
Section 9 | 54 |
Section 10 | 75 |
Section 11 | 80 |
Section 12 | 82 |
Section 13 | 84 |
Section 14 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde |
| Author | Moisés Kaufman |
| Publisher | Dramatists Play Service Inc, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0822216493, 9780822216490 |
| Length | 85 pages |
| Subjects | › › Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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