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: 2006-10-01 08:51 pm (UTC)