... of the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, is significant inasmuch as it opens the complex issue of Hook's sexuality. As Ed Cohen (in Talk on the Wilde Side) and Alan Sinfield (in The Wilde Century) argue, the trials (which were widely reported in the popular press in England and, indeed, throughout Europe and the United States) were crucial in the ... ...

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