Gross indecency : the three trials of Oscar Wilde / Moises Kaufman ; with an afterword by Tony Kushner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaufman, Moisés, author.

Contributor:

Kushner, Tony, writer of afterword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Drama.

Wilde, Oscar.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

Local Subjects:

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Drama.

Genre:

True crime literature.

Legal drama (Literature)

Historical drama.

Biographical drama.

Drama.

Physical Description:

xv, 143 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1998.

Summary:

"In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England's reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment. For within a year the bewildered Wilde himself was on trial for acts of 'gross indecency' and -- implicitly -- for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety. In this work of the theater -- a smash hit Off Broadway -- Moises Kaufman turns the trials of Oscar Wilde into a riveting human and intellectual drama. Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indecency unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty, his age in all its complacency and repression."--Cover.

Contents:

Act I. Prologue ; The first trial

Act II. The interview wit Marvin Taylor ; The second trial ; The third trial ; Epilogue ; Coda

Afterword / Tony Kushner.

Notes:

"A Vintage original."

Lambda Literary Awards - Drama, Winner, 1998

ISBN:

0375702326

9780375702327

OCLC:

37594724

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