The Trials of Oscar Wilde Audiobook
The Trials of Oscar Wilde Audiobook
- Martin Jarvis
- Canongate Books Ltd.
- 2001-01-20
- 2 h 31 min
Summary:
Born in Dublin in 1854 Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was informed at Oxford where he accomplished a double first. His reputation being a dramatist, poet, and novelist was established in only seven years; from his first brief tale The Happy Prince to The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895. He passed away in Paris in 1900 ruined with a notorious libel case and 2 yrs in Reading gaol. On 18th Feb 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry remaining a visiting cards at the Albemarle Club on which he had written: ‘To Oscar Wilde posing like a sodomite.’ The accusation resulted in a series of three trials as well as the imprisonment of Wilde. This compelling dramatic recreation has been cautiously compiled from the original trial transcripts. Performed almost completely by Martin Jarvis acquiring the parts of barristers, witnesses, judge, jury, and, obviously, Oscar Wilde. It captures the flavour from the trials exactly.