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The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of "gross indecency&rdquo. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Oscar Wilde on Trial: Social Background, Cultural Context, Legal Process -- ONE. Oscar Wilde's Remarkable Career: Professional Ambitions, Sexual Adventures -- "You must get married at once!" Oscar Wilde, Domestic Life, and Literary Success -- "I adored you madly, extravagantly, absurdly": Oscar Wilde's Evolving Homosexual Career -- "Feasting with panthers": Alfred Douglas, Alfred Taylor, and the World of Homosexual Blackmail and Male Prostitution -- TWO. Oscar Wilde and Alfred Douglas: The Scandalous Affair That Inflamed the Marquess -- "Write to me soon, you honey-haired boy!" Wilde, Douglas, and the "love that dare not speak its name" -- The Marquess's Libel -- Regina v. John Sholto Douglas: The Libel Trial -- Part II: Regina v. Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor: A Reconstruction of the Proceedings -- THREE. The Pretrial Hearing: Arraignment and Committal of Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor at Bow Street Magistrates' Court -- First Day: Saturday, 6 April 1895 -- Second Day: Thursday, 11 April 1895 -- Third Day: Friday, 19 April 1895 -- FOUR. The First Criminal Trial: Regina v. Wilde and Taylor, Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) -- First Day: Friday, 26 April 1895 -- Second Day: Saturday, 27 April 1895 -- Third Day: Monday, 29 April 1895 -- Fourth Day: Tuesday, 30 April 1895 -- Fifth Day: Wednesday, 1 May 1895 -- FIVE. The Second Criminal Trial: Regina v. Taylor, Regina v. Wilde, Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) -- The Trial of Alfred Taylor -- First Day: Monday, 20 May 1895 -- Second Day: Tuesday, 21 May 1895 -- The Trial of Oscar Wilde -- Third Day: Wednesday, 22 May 1895 -- Fourth Day: Thursday, 23 May 1895 -- Fifth Day: Friday, 24 May 1895 -- Sixth Day: Saturday, 25 May 1895.
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