The Trials of Oscar Wilde Audiobook (Free)

Created in Dublin in 1854 Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was educated at Oxford where he achieved a double first. His reputation as a dramatist, poet, and novelist was set up in only seven years; from his first short tale The Happy Prince towards the Importance of Being Earnest in 1895. He died in Paris in 1900 ruined with a notorious libel case and 2 yrs in Reading gaol. On 18th February 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry still left a visiting cards at the Albemarle Club on which he previously created: ‘To Oscar Wilde posing as a sodomite.’ The accusation led to a series of three trials and the imprisonment of Wilde. This compelling dramatic recreation has been properly compiled from the original trial transcripts. Performed nearly completely by Martin Jarvis acquiring the parts of barristers, witnesses, judge, jury, and, of course, Oscar Wilde. It catches the flavour from the trials exactly.