Oscar Wilde was ill, "When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting." Wilde blamed himself, though, for the ethical degradation of character that he allowed Douglas to bring about in him and took responsibility for his own fall, "I am here for having tried to put your father in prison." The first half concludes with Wilde forgiving Douglas, for his own sake as much as Douglas's. The second half of the letter traces Wilde's spiritual journey of redemption and fulfilment through his prison reading. He realised that his ordeal had filled his soul with the fruit of experience, however
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde criminal charges against Wilde, with the second reaching no verdict and the third resulting in a conviction and sentence to hard labour. "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" was staged Off-Broadway at the Greenwich House, and received two critically acclaimed stagings in Los Angeles: one at the Mark Taper Forum in 1998 and the other by director Susan Lee at the Eclectic Theatre in 2009. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is a 1997 play written by Moisés Kaufman. It deals with Oscar Wilde's three trials on the