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 ...

Towards the end of Oscar's time in prison, he had petitioned the Home Secretary to be allowed to have pencil and paper in his cell and wrote a long letter to young Alfred Douglas, which has since ...

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.” Christopher ...

Lord Alfred Douglas is best known for his role in Oscar Wilde’s conviction for “gross indecency.” But he was also a poet, virulent antisemite, and spent time in jail for libeling Winston ...

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 ...

John Fraser as handsome young Lord Alfred Douglas is suitably vain, selfish, vindictive and petulant and the relationship between the two is more understandable.

From Agnes von Kurowsky’s gentle Dear John note to Ernest Hemingway to Oscar Wilde’s venomous missive to Lord Alfred Douglas, here are nine of the best breakup letters in history (even if some ...

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 ...

In 1892, Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover, wrote a poem called "Two Loves" which referred euphemistically to "the love that dare not speak its name." At that time, homosexuals were ...