Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman, Stephen Wangh

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde


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Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Moises Kaufman, Stephen Wangh
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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

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