The Queen's English: Words and Their Impact on the Queensberry Libel Trial
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Words, both written and spoken, figured heavily in the imprudent libel trial brought by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensberry. From its outset, the trial was steeped in words, connotations and convolutions enough to delight any enthusiast. Unfortunately for Wilde, the meanings of these words were open to conflicting interpretations in Victorian society. It was this discrepancy that proved destructive to Wilde's reputation and livelihood, arguably his very life, in the criminal proceedings instigated by the libel trial itself. By his own words, Wilde would fall as meteorically as he had risen in the minds of his fellow Englishmen.
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