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Gross indecency

Moises Kaufman

Moisés Kaufman

1997
Lambda Literary Awards American Drama (Dramatic Works By One Author) Wilde

In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moises Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship, with a cast of characters ranging from George Bernard Shaw to Queen Victoria herself.