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Ballad of Reading Gaol, The by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)  

Ballad of Reading Gaol, The by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

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Wildes meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquis of Queensberry. It relates the story of an execution of a man who murdered his wife which Wilde witnessed during his internment. Published in 1898, it was Wildes last published poem as he would die in 1900 from cerebral meningitis, caused by syphilis.(Summary by John Gonzalez)
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Episode 1
Wednesday, 31 December, 1969

 

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