Then and now series Oscar Wilde : the tragedy of being earnest
Type
Book
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ISBN 10
1902681274
ISBN 13
9781902681276
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Volume
3
Pages
xii, 91 pages
Subject
United Kingdom Famous Trials
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Abstract
"More than a hundred years of apologia has contained many inaccurate comments upon the various legal processes in which Oscar Wilde became involved. In this, the third of our "Then and Now Series" we deal with some of the stultifying legal events and place them in context, and make a comparison with the legal setting today. By far the most important difference between then and now is the law has completely changed. Oscar Wilde could not today be charged with offences of gross indecency in private with a consenting male adult. That he committed those acts is not in issue. After the trials he freely admitted the offences in spite of vehemently denying them on oath in court. By knowingly and freely indulging in behavior which he knew was criminal, Oscar Wilde was the author of his own destruction." - Foreword
Description
Contents:
Ch. 1. Social Attitudes Towards Homosexuality -- Ch. 2. Prosecution of Lord Queensberry for Criminal Libel -- Ch. 3. Criminal Libel Today -- Ch. 4. Arrest at the Cadogan Hotel -- Ch. 5. Section Eleven -- A Silent Passage Into Law -- Ch. 6. Steps Towards Reform in the Nineteen-Fifties -- Ch. 7. The Abolition of Section Eleven -- A Long Haul -- Ch. 8. Costs Incurred in the Trials -- Ch. 9. The Law of Homosexuality Overseas -- Ch. 10. Legal Miscellany -- Ch. 11. Prison -- Then and Now
Ch. 1. Social Attitudes Towards Homosexuality -- Ch. 2. Prosecution of Lord Queensberry for Criminal Libel -- Ch. 3. Criminal Libel Today -- Ch. 4. Arrest at the Cadogan Hotel -- Ch. 5. Section Eleven -- A Silent Passage Into Law -- Ch. 6. Steps Towards Reform in the Nineteen-Fifties -- Ch. 7. The Abolition of Section Eleven -- A Long Haul -- Ch. 8. Costs Incurred in the Trials -- Ch. 9. The Law of Homosexuality Overseas -- Ch. 10. Legal Miscellany -- Ch. 11. Prison -- Then and Now
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-91).
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