The Trial of Oscar Wilde (Dramatic Reading): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Trial of Oscar Wilde (Dramatic Reading), credited to Anonymous, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Trial of Oscar Wilde (Dramatic Reading) by Anonymous. In 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labor. This account of his two trials was compiled from the original shorthand court reports by an anonymous author. While a more complete account of the trial was published several years later, it omitted the more 'sensational' exchanges. This shorter version was clearly intended for a more prurient reader. In it we hear Wilde's famous defence of "the love that dare not speak its name", and see the evidence mount as a succession of attractive young men step into the witness box to tell their tales. - Summary by Rob Marland Cast Narrator: Rob Marland Oscar Wilde: Edward Kirkby Alfred Taylor: Ted Delorme Mr. C.F. Gill: Beth Thomas Sir Edward Clarke: Kristin Gjerløw Mr. JP Grain: Michele Fry Sir Frank Lockwood: Elizabeth Klett Mr. Horace Avory: Oxenhandler Mr. Hall: Joseph Tabler Mr. Justice Charles: Richard Shipp Mr. Justice Wills: Zames Curran The Foreman of the Jury: David Olson Frank Atkins: Eden Rea-Hedrick Edward Shelley: Newgatenovelist Charles Parker: Sandra Schmit Alfred Wood: Rotgold Sidney Mavor: Anna Simon Hugues Rebell: David Bushhouse Arthur Symons: Mark Chulsky Baron Macauley: Apneia Octave Mirbeau: Herman Roskams Newspaper reporter: Jessie Yun John Milton: Hannoria Edited by: Rob Marland

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Trial of Oscar Wilde (Dramatic Reading)
• Author credits: Anonymous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 3:32:36

Catalogue topics

• oscar wilde
• dramatic reading
• gay
• trial
• bosie
• queensberry
• alfred taylor
• gross indecency

Track guide

1. 00 - Dramatis personae — 1:49
2. 01 - Section 1 — 24:22
3. 02 - Section 2 — 52:23
4. 03 - Section 3 — 47:04
5. 04 - Section 4 — 15:47
6. 05 - Section 5 — 41:49
7. 06 - Section 6 — 10:09
8. 07 - Section 7 — 19:17

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