Creative Actors Lab
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Creative Actors Lab
A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 16 - Oscar Wilde & The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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In this episode, Max reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which Oscar Wilde wrote while he was in jail for two years for the crime of homosexuality, and it was inspired by Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards, who was imprisoned and executed for murdering his wife.
The poem highlights the brutality of the penal system, the mental suffering of inmates, and the hypocrisy of morality, featuring the famous line, "Yet each man kills the thing he loves". Reading Gaol was a place of extreme emotional and physical suffering for Wilde, leading him to campaign for prison reform after his release.
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