Oscar Wilde hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison, he wrote "De Profundis" (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On his release, he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of 46. Oscar Wilde was born at 21
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