#oscar wilde trial

[tjlc-hellven]

Oscar Wilde trial in a nutshell

Oscar Wilde: Your..! *slams hand on the stand he's behind* Honour! I might be gay, but he..! *pointing at prosecutor* Is a furry!

Judge: ...

Judge: You're guilty.

[coffeeforthemoon]

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise".

― Oscar Wilde

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

Eddie Redmayne photographed by Chris Floyd on 2009

Source Chris Floyd on IG

[cosmicallydivine]

what is kamala harris’s plan to stop the new netflix dorian gray show

[alexanderpearce]

stripped, depeche mode / wilde (1997) / a very english scandal (2018) / judge john deed 3x03 "conspiracy"

[celluloidrainbow]

THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE (1960) dir. Ken Hughes England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace. (link in title)

[per1w1nkl3]

de profundis is such an interesting piece of literature. it starts off with wilde talking directly to douglas finally telling him exactly how he feels about all the things he's ever done to him. it's angry, it's resentful not only to douglas but to wilde himself probably, for never truly putting a stop to it, for going back to him over and over again.

but de profundis is also about pain, it's about forgiveness, it's about humility. it's about acceptance of one's self and place in society, after all, the biggest sin is not living to the fullest. it's almost philosophical, it discusses religion and in such a unique way. it's full of literary references that if you didn't know before that wilde was an incredibly cultured man you do now. through it wilde takes the role of a teacher, a mentor not just that of a former lover who's been led down and hurt.

and of course there's the infamous 'love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling' which is really not about sucking dick (although I will admit with that interpretation it would be a fire fucking quote), in context it's about not being worthy of celestial nor romantic love. once again it's about humility.

and all of this is so solidly structured it's amazing he wrote one page a day without being able to edit anything until later. and its prose. ughhh. I only wish I was smart enough to truly understand every nuance of it.

[nowlander]

Oscar Wilde: *gets tried for homosexuality*

Bram Stoker: My colleague? Gay? I mean... what colleague? I have no acquintance with such a man. I wouldn't know if he were gay. I am not gay. I'm so not gay, that my next book will be an allegory for gayness being defeated by good people who aren't gay and won't succumb to gayness, as tempting as it is. Except maybe in the name of love they would succumb to gayness if they had to... but they WON'T have to because their ungay love will protect them from the evils of gay temptations. Look at the amount of not gay that I am!

*writes Dracula*

Generation after generation of readers, long after Bram Stoker and any of his previous works would have been forgotten, after reading Dracula: so 100 years ago there was this dude called Bram Stoker and he was totally gay.

[e--q]

Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas

(Handmade Soft Toy Fox inspired by John Fraser’s beautiful portrayal in the 1960 British film The Trials of Oscar Wilde)

~ Happy Birthday John Fraser ~

[just-an-enby-lemon]

One thing that RQG Wilde accidentaly got right about the real Oscar Wilde is that RQG Wilde when compared to the likes of Bertie and even Hamid has just very strong "pretending to be an aristocrat" vibes.

You can just tell that this is a man who actually needs/needed to work in his lifetime. But also you just know this is not a man that was born into nobility no matter how much nobility wants to belive he did.

And the real Oscar Wilde fits the bill as well, he was a middle class man with basically no inheritance playing the aristocrat for his audience of nobles. He strugled financialy to keep his expensive lifestyle and actually had to deal with "unstable author income".

But he played the aristocrat so well most people that talk about him nowdays refer to him as such.

[1997eitheror]

what do you meannnn they’re making a modern retelling tv show of dorian gray but making basil and dorian siblings???? WHY. why.

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, April 3 in 1895, the trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde began, ultimately resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. Wilde brought the suit against the Marquess of Queensberry who, angered by Wilde’s apparent ongoing homosexual relationship with the Marquess’s son Alfred Douglas, had publicly accused Wilde of sodomy. Wilde dropped the suit, however, after being confronted by the possibility of witnesses who could potentially prove the Marquess’s accusation. After winning a counterclaim against Wilde that left the writer bankrupt, the Marquess of Queensberry then presented evidence against him, and on April 6, 1895 Wilde was arrested on charges of "gross indecency," a coded term for homosexual acts. He was convicted on May 25, 1895 and sentenced to two years hard labor. Much of his sentence was spent at Reading Gaol, where he was addressed and identified only as "C.3.3" – the occupant of the third cell on the third floor of C ward. The harsh incarceration broke his health and eventually led to his death in 1900.

After his release, Wilde wrote the long poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which was published in London by Leonard Smithers on February 13,1898 under the name "C.3.3." While in prison, Wilde wrote a long letter to Alfred Douglas that was not delivered. It recounts their relationship and extravagant lifestyle, as well as Wilde’s spiritual transformation during his imprisonment. Wilde entrusted the manuscript to his loyal friend and sometimes-lover Robert Ross, who had it published after Wilde’s death by Methuen and Co. in 1905, giving it the title "De Profundis" (”Out of the depths”) from Psalm 130.

To commemorate this milestone, we present the title page from our first edition copy of The Ballad of Reading Gaol, limited to an edition of 800 copies on handmade paper; the title page and cover of our first edition of De Profundis, with the gilt device of a bird leaving a circle of bars designed by Wilde’s friend Charles Ricketts; and illustrations by the designer and artist John Vassos for an illustrated edition of The Ballad of Reading Gaol published in New York by E. P. Dutton & Co. in 1928.

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[nem0c]

TIL: The lawyer who represented the Marquess of Queensbury at the initial Queensbury vs Wilde Libel Trial, and who led the cross-examination of Wilde that ultimately lead to his arrest for Gross Indecency, was also the first signatory of the Ulster Covenant and organised the first Loyalist Paramilitaries in North Ireland.

Edward Carson, pictured here in mural form:

[sirendoesomestuf]

bitches say they’re born in the wrong generation because of music.

i say i’m born in the wrong generation because by being born in the 2000s, i was wrongfully stripped of my god-given right to fuck oscar wilde.

[sparklygraves]

havin some feels about Bosie Douglas as portrayed by Colin Morgan in The Happy Prince (movie about Oscar Wilde)—

he’s messy— vain, entitled, silly— but also truly in love with Wilde. & they have this genuine connection— it can get tangled & spiky, but it can also just look like them on the exact same emotional wavelength, laughing & crying at the same time & making total sense to no one but each other.

& imagine— the guilt Bosie must have felt on some level when his family (who were against the relationship) got Oscar thrown in prison for gayness. the guilt should have been his family’s & society’s, but it was piled on Bosie instead— not just from himself but also from Wilde’s friends.

Oscar was just as much a part of their relationship though. yet Wilde’s friends keep telling Bosie that he owes Oscar so much, that he destroyed him. & Oscar says this too, in a fight, at least once in the movie.

but Bosie’s homophobic family is not his fault. society’s evil laws against gayness are also not on Bosie.

don’t get me wrong— I think if I ever met the guy I wouldn’t have liked him. entitled narcissists are not my cup of tea. but Colin Morgan is magical & brought some pathos to the role & made me feel from Bosie’s pov a bit. so anyway. feels! ❤️

[chicago-geniza]

Oh I guess we're doing eugenic criminal psychology now, which incidentally maps 1:1 onto the language of "mental age" and "mental competence" used to deny I/DD and mentally ill adults the right to full legal personhood and self-determination. It's also funny to see which nominally "scientific" ideas from the 19th century have retained their aura of credibility and "empiricism" into the present and which, like hypnotism, are now considered woo woo shit

Dracula is a book about the 19th century, the history of science/technology, and its inextricable relationship to the history of immigration + burgeoning European nationalisms + Orientalism & empire + oh my Gd the Dreyfus affair and Oscar Wilde's "gross indecency" trial