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The Rest Is History

342: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Downfall and Prison (Part 2)

The Rest Is History

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4.626.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1895, and with the libel case brought against the Marquess of Queensbury having collapsed, Oscar Wilde is now arrested and charged with committing acts of “gross indecency”. With former lovers, hotel servants and chambermaids lining up to give evidence, and the evening papers, night after night full of scandalous allegations, turning the general public against him, Wilde must now face a trial brought about through his own poor judgement. In this second episode on the trials of Oscar Wilde, Tom and Dominic explore Wilde’s downfall, his time in jail, and his final years. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter:  @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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elder for a younger man as there was

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between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy and

1:09.3

such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep spiritual affection

1:16.7

that is as pure as it is perfect. It dictates and pervades great works of art like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo and those two letters of mine such as they are.

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It is in this century misunderstood, so much misunderstood that it may be described as the love that dare not speak

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its name, and on account of it I am placed where I am now.

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It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection.

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There is nothing unnatural about it.

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It is intellectual and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man when the elder man has intellect

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and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him.

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That it should be so the world does not understand the world mocks at it and

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sometimes puts one in the pillory for it. So Dominic that was the celebrated speech

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