Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas. Wilde (left) and Douglas in 1893. | Hulton Archive/GettyImages. In early 1897, as Oscar Wilde was nearing the end of his two-year prison sentence ...

Oscar Wilde (l) and Lord Alfred Douglas, May 1893. (Public Domain/ Wikimedia Commons) Notwithstanding his relationship with his parents, Douglas was not a particularly nice fellow.

Wilde himself was denounced at the trial by his former lover Lord Alfred Douglas, now a bitter proto-fascist and anti-Semite, as “the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during ...

De Profundis (1897). Originally titled Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis, Oscar Wilde's De Profundis is a long, deeply personal letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. It details Wilde's spiritual evolution ...

Merlin Holland, grandson of Oscar Wilde, tells the story of the playwright’s downfall. Skip to Main Content. ... Well, my grandfather met "Bosie" Douglas, the young Lord Alfred Douglas, in 1891.

Oscar Wilde was one of the greatest of Irish writers and ... Dubbed “one of the greatest love letters ever written," "De Profundis" was sent by Wilde to his former lover Lord Alfred Douglas.

Color and wide screen are a sock asset to The Trials of Oscar Wilde and, on balance, it has greater stellar appeal ... John Fraser as handsome young Lord Alfred Douglas is suitably vain, ...

The personal life and writings of Oscar Wilde have been so inextricably linked that the new play DORIAN has woven Wilde's journey into that of one of his best known characters, Dorian Gray. In an ...

Callum Linnane, foreground, in the role of Oscar Wilde, and Benjamin Garrett as Lord Alfred Douglas (known as Bosie) performing in the Australian Ballet’s premiere of “Oscar.” ...