Book: Wilde's trials
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ailbheIrish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde
It's the transcripts, assembled and edited by his grandson.
I've only just started - still on the libel trial - but it's fabulous. I think I'm about to go on a bit of a Wilde bender. Not the stuff by him, except perhaps De Profundis, but all the biogs I can get my hands on. And then I'll watch Fry being Wilde, though that, IIRC, was a bit salacious. But then Wilde was a bit salacious betimes, too.
It's the transcripts, assembled and edited by his grandson.
I've only just started - still on the libel trial - but it's fabulous. I think I'm about to go on a bit of a Wilde bender. Not the stuff by him, except perhaps De Profundis, but all the biogs I can get my hands on. And then I'll watch Fry being Wilde, though that, IIRC, was a bit salacious. But then Wilde was a bit salacious betimes, too.
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Date: 2006-09-21 07:09 pm (UTC)Excerpts from the transcripts are also available on line; I used them in preparation for directing "Gross Indecency" this past summer.
If this sort of thing interests you, you must lay hands on The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. More than 1,200 pages worth, deeply annotated. I found it enthralling.
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Date: 2006-10-01 08:51 pm (UTC)