Oscar

Season 1 • Episode 3: De Profundis • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 3: De Profundis

March 28, 1985 • 50 min

Following the sensational trials, and to the delight of the public and press, Oscar Wilde , found guilty of acts of gross indecency with various male persons, was incarcerated in Pentonville Prison in May 1895 to serve a sentence of two years' hard labour -an experience which would later produce one of his best known works, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

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