About this episode
- Learn about Oscar Wilde’s life
- How is The Oval Portrait like A Picture of Dorian Gray?
- How did Wilde meet Bosie?
- What was the father’s reaction to Wilde’s relationship with his son?
- What is DeProfundis?
- What were Wilde’s last years like?
- Why do we remember Wilde?
- 00:00 Introduction
- 01:05 Oscar Wilde’s life
- 03:15 Meeting of Wilde and Whitman (part 2)
- 04:09 The Oval Portrait
- 7:08 A Picture of Dorian Gray
- 15:02 Meeting Bosie!
- 16:11 Enter the brutish father
- 17:18 Dame Judi Dench “recollections”
- 19:29 More brutish father
- 20:56 The court trials of Oscar Wilde
- 22:23 Out of the Depths (De Profundis)
- 30:53 Wilde’s last years
- 32:10 Importance of Wilde
- 34:00 Sources
- 35:09 Future episodes
- 37:29 Outro
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