Posted by Jost on October 4, 2006, at 19:04:48
In reply to Re: My take on Oscar Wilde » corafree, posted by Declan on October 4, 2006, at 18:21:09
I tend to think his staying for trial was a massive miscalculation of what the upper classes were willing to tolerate done to one of their own number (not him, but the other guy), in the name of prosecuting homosexuals.
A very costly miscalculation, too.
(See above at end of Astrology, if interested, for a plot summary of the "Importance of Being Earnest" which, if I had known about this thread, I would have put here.)
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