The Marquess Of Queensberry

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300194838

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The Marquess of Queensberry by Linda Stratmann Pdf

DIVThe Marquess of Queensberry is as famous for his role in the downfall of one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for helping establish the rules for modern-day boxing. The trial and two-year imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, lover of Queensberry’s son, Lord Alfred Douglas, remains one of literary history’s great tragedies. However, Linda Stratmann's riveting biography of the Marquess paints a far more complex picture by drawing on new sources and unpublished letters. Throughout his life, Queensberry was emotionally damaged by a series of tragedies, and the events of the Wilde affair—told for the first time from the Marquess’s perspective—were directly linked to Queensberry’s personal crises. Through the retelling of pivotal events from Queensberry’s life—the death of his brother on the Matterhorn and his fruitless search for the body; the suicides of his father, brother, and eldest son—the book reveals a well-meaning man often stricken with a grief he found hard to express, who deserves our compassion./div

Author : Moisés Kaufman
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822216493

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Gross Indecency by Moisés Kaufman Pdf

THE STORY: In early 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left a card at Wilde's club bearing the phrase posing somdomite. Wilde sued the Marquess for criminal libel. The defense denounced Wild

Author : Merlin Holland
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007158058

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The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland Pdf

Oscar Wilde had one of literary history's most explosive love affairs with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, delivered a note to the Albemarle Club addressed to "Oscar Wilde posing as sodomite." With Bosie's encouragement, Wilde sued the Marquess for libel. He not only lost but he was tried twice for "gross indecency" and sent to prison with two years' hard labor. With this publication of the uncensored trial transcripts, readers can for the first time in more than a century hear Wilde at his most articulate and brilliant. The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde documents an alarmingly swift fall from grace; it is also a supremely moving testament to the right to live, work, and love as one's heart dictates.

Author : Douglas Murray
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781529364170

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Bosie by Douglas Murray Pdf

WITH A NEW FOREWORD AND REVISED INTRODUCTION 'A superb biography ... full of compassion, perception' Roger Lewis, The Times 'I love this book. Douglas Murray is a genius' Rupert Everett Lord Alfred Douglas, known as 'Bosie', son of the Marquess of Queensberry, was known as one of the most beautiful young men of his generation. Aged twenty-one he met and became the lover and subsequent obsession of Oscar Wilde. Their relationship caused a scandal in 1895 when Wilde took Queensberry, Douglas's aggressive father, to court for libel. When the details of their relationship were aired in court, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and later imprisoned. Wilde's story is well known, but this is the first book to tell it fully from Douglas's perspective. Written, and originally published in 2000, with access to never-before-seen papers , Bosie explores the contradictions, tensions and turmoils of Douglas's life with Wilde and beyond as a poet, husband and father. This compelling biography uncovers the life of one of the most notorious figures in literary history, and its course from gilded beautiful youth to semi-reclusive outcast, at the time of Douglas's death in 1945.

Author : Merlin Holland
Publisher : Fourth Estate (GB)
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056839569

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Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess by Merlin Holland Pdf

One of the most famous love affairs in literary history is that of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Bosie Douglas. As a direct consequence of this relationship, Wilde underwent three trials in 1895. In this text, Merlin Holland presents the original transcript of the Wilde versus Queensberry trial.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783387325683

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Liz Constable,Dennis Denisoff,Matthew Potolsky
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812216783

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Perennial Decay by Liz Constable,Dennis Denisoff,Matthew Potolsky Pdf

When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of gratitude to the marquis of Queensberry for destroying the high Priest of the Decadents." But reports of the death of decadence were greatly exaggerated, and today, more than one hundred years after the famous trial and at the beginning of a new millennium, the phenomenon of decadence continues to be a significant cultural force. Indeed, "decadence" in the nineteenth century, and in our own period, has been a concept whose analysis yields a broad set of associations. In Perennial Decay, Emily Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Sylvia Molloy, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Spackman, Marc Weiner, and others extend the critical field of decadence beyond the traditional themes of morbidity, the cult of artificiality, exoticism, and sexual nonconformism. They approach the question of decadence afresh, reevaluating the continuing importance of late nineteenth-century decadence for contemporary literary and cultural studies.

Author : Oscar Wilde,Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
Publisher : London : W. Hodge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : UOM:39015002255910

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The Trials of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde,Great Britain. Central Criminal Court Pdf

Only official report of these trials is to be found in v. 121 and 122 of the Central Criminal Court sessions papers, Apr.-June, 1895, from which all evidence is omitted.

Author : David Hare
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571297559

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The Judas Kiss by David Hare Pdf

Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night when the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him. With a burning sense of outrage, David Hare presents the consequences of an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear and conformity. Originally produced in the West End and on Broadway, this new edition coincides with a 2012 revival. 'Superbly written... Hare has taken a history and pieced it together with heroic grace... Vastly rich, sophisticated and heartbreaking.' Time Out, New York

Author : Neil McKenna
Publisher : Random House
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446456828

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The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna Pdf

‘I have put my genius into my life but only my talent into my work’. So said Oscar Wilde of his remarkable life – a life more complex, more erotic, more troubled and more triumphant than any of his contemporaries ever knew or suspected. Neil McKenna’s The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde charts fully for the first time Oscar’s astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London’s sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven personally and creatively by his powerful desires for sex with men, and Neil McKenna argues compellingly and convincingly that Oscar’s Wilde’s life and work can only be fully understood and appreciated in terms of his sexuality. The book draws of a vast range of sources, many of them previously unpublished, and includes startling new material like the statements made to the police by the male prostitutes and blackmailers ranged against Oscar Wilde at his trial which have been lost for over a century. Dazzlingly written, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde meticulously and brilliantly reconstructs Oscar Wilde’s emotional and sexual life, painting an astonishingly frank and vivid portrait of a troubled genius who chose to martyr himself for the cause of love between men.

Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300268430

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Oscar Wilde on Trial by Joseph Bristow Pdf

The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of “gross indecency” Among the most infamous prosecutions of a literary figure in history, the two trials of Oscar Wilde for committing acts of “gross indecency” occurred at the height of his fame. After being found guilty, Wilde spent two years in prison, emerged bankrupt, and died in a cheap hotel room in Paris a few years after his release. The trials prompted a new intolerance toward homosexuality: habits of male bonding that were previously seen as innocent were now viewed as a threat, and an association grew in the public mind between gay men and the arts. Oscar Wilde on Trial assembles accounts from a variety of sources, including official and private letters, newspaper accounts, and previously published (but very incomplete) transcripts, to provide the most accurate and authoritative account to date of events that were pivotal in both legal and cultural history.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Homosexuality
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044953110

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The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065520581

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Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : OXFORD:555006292

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The Scottish Jurist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melville Madison Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Accident insurance
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU09369031

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Reports of All the Published Life and Accident Insurance Cases: Cases determined in the courts of America, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Canada, down to January, 1875 by Melville Madison Bigelow Pdf