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The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde Merlin Holland Books

Courtroom transcripts are rarely this entertaining.

The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde is not what I expected it to be. I had anticipated this to be an actual book about Oscar Wilde's infamous libel lawsuit, not the literal courtroom transcripts, and while some of the transcripts are a bit dry, uninteresting, and repetitive, the thing that truly stands out and makes this a delightful read is Wilde's wit.

Oscar Wilde seemed a delightful personality, as he nimbly twists around the words of his examiners and spits them back, the way he dances around with his words and refuses to allow himself to be confined to reductive language, is marvelous to watch.

His person is so animated, so character-like, it's easy to be so thoroughly charmed that you momentarily forget this also happens to work as a meditation on what makes art beautiful, as well as a glaring example of one of the justice system's greatest failings.

Now if only this book featured a lot more of Wilde's orations, and a lot less of the prosecuting and defending lawyers, Clarke and Carson, whose drab, reductive words, only manage to detract from the colorful, insightful way in which Oscar Wilde perceives the people and the world around him.
But of course, this isn't a real book, but merely a courtroom transcript, so of course the lawyers are going to steal the show from the colorful personalities I'd rather be hearing more from.


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The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde Merlin Holland Books Reviews

What a fabulous find the shorthand notes of Oscar Wilde's prosecution of the Marquess of Queensberry for libel.

The author is Oscar Wilde's grandson and his literary executor. According to him, the formal transcripts of the proceeding (the transcription from shorthand into typewritten form) has mysteriously disappeared from the Court's files. Very irregular. One wonders how/why the stenographic record survived when so much else of the official record mysteriously disappeared. The author only says the transcripts were delivered to the British Library, but does not indicate the source.

I am a lawyer and am familiar with trial procedure here in the US, but not the UK in 1895. It could be that the proceedings were taken down by private stenographers (i.e., not employees of the Crown), who would transcribe the proceedings and deliver a typed version to the Court for entry into the record. If so, then the hand written stenographic record could have remained in private hands (the stenographic company), untouched while the rest of the formal record of the trial mysteriously disappeared. How fortunate for us these records have survived.

I am not sure it's fair to blame Wilde's counsel for the debacle. Wilde swore to this man that there was no basis at all for the libel. I believe that during the trial Wilde's counsel saw the inevitable, felt let down by a client who lied to him (then a gentleman's word was his bond) and frankly didn't really care. A lying client really ties a lawyer's hands behind his or her back. (I have had first hand experience of that as a real estate lawyer. You really can't represent people who lie to you.)

In his introduction, the author says that he would like to ask his grandfather why on earth he started the action. I would too. It was insanity, knowing "what was out there" in the way of blackmailers, evidence at the Savoy Hotel and other places which would come back to bite him. Oscar Wilde and his immediate family paid a terrible price for this mistake. All of Wilde's other friends told Wilde to tear the card up. Why didn't he? I can only speculate that Wilde was sucked into the Queensberry family's "strum und drang" and was used as a pawn. All of the Queensberry family (exclusive of the father) financed Wilde's prosecution of the father. Wilde did not have sufficient funds to pay for the prosecution himself as he was facing bankruptcy at the time (another reason why it seems incredible for Wilde to start this prosecution).
Very fascinating, I've read bios on the case for a college thesis, but never the "actual transcripts." Highly recommend if a fan or not.
Great book. A unique perspective, and incredibly thorough in the details.
A very interesting reworking of the classic H. Montgomery Hyde "Trials of Oscar Wilde" with a more modern take on Oscar.
As a junkie for this whole story, I of course loved it, but I'm almost at the end and I'm realizing this is just the libel trial that Oscar got going against Bosie's dad, I'm wondering about the criminal trial that followed.
Courtroom transcripts are rarely this entertaining.

The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde is not what I expected it to be. I had anticipated this to be an actual book about Oscar Wilde's infamous libel lawsuit, not the literal courtroom transcripts, and while some of the transcripts are a bit dry, uninteresting, and repetitive, the thing that truly stands out and makes this a delightful read is Wilde's wit.

Oscar Wilde seemed a delightful personality, as he nimbly twists around the words of his examiners and spits them back, the way he dances around with his words and refuses to allow himself to be confined to reductive language, is marvelous to watch.

His person is so animated, so character-like, it's easy to be so thoroughly charmed that you momentarily forget this also happens to work as a meditation on what makes art beautiful, as well as a glaring example of one of the justice system's greatest failings.

Now if only this book featured a lot more of Wilde's orations, and a lot less of the prosecuting and defending lawyers, Clarke and Carson, whose drab, reductive words, only manage to detract from the colorful, insightful way in which Oscar Wilde perceives the people and the world around him.
But of course, this isn't a real book, but merely a courtroom transcript, so of course the lawyers are going to steal the show from the colorful personalities I'd rather be hearing more from.