Oscar Wilde: Part 2

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🗓️ 14 October 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This is the second part of our two-part episode on Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde! We're talking about the latter half of Oscar's life, including the wittiest comedy in the English language, the tumultuous relationship between Oscar and Alfred Douglas, and Oscar's trial and imprisonment. Listen to Part 1 here.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world
0:03.8	and throughout time.
0:04.8	My name is Eli.
0:05.8	I'm Irene.
0:06.7	I'm Alice.
0:07.5	And today we're bringing you our second episode on the 19th century Irish writer Oscar Wilde.
0:20.5	Just before we get started on this episode, I wanted to mention our sponsor for today,
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0:45.7	for this episode. We're going to discuss a rather unhealthy relationship. We're also going to
0:51.6	discuss power and balance in relationships due to age and class difference.
0:55.9	This episode also contains a lot of periodypical homophobia to the extent of legal prosecution
1:03.1	and then state-sanctioned abuse in prison. If any of that sounds like something that you
1:08.3	don't want to listen to, feel free to check out our other episodes.
1:11.4	Also, if you did not know from the title and everything that we have said, this is the second
1:17.1	part of a two-part episode on Ask Wild.
1:20.3	You can listen to just this episode without listening to the previous episode, and it'll
1:26.5	more or less make sense to you, I think.
1:28.1	But if you haven't listened to that and you would like to go ahead and do it now, if you can't
1:32.5	be bothered doing that, I'll give a quick synopsis of what happened. We covered Oswald's early
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