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Sep 25, 2024 · Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
Sep 5, 2024 · Callum Linnane (seated) as Oscar Wilde and Benjamin Garrett as Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas in the Australian Ballet’s Oscar. Photographed at Villa Alba in Kew. Simon Schluter
Oct 1, 2024 · It was the first in a series of secret affairs that he had with other men, culminating in his close and tempestuous friendship with Lord Alfred (“Bosie”) Douglas, whom he had met in 1891 and who was 16 years younger than Wilde.
Sep 12, 2024 · Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
Sep 26, 2024 · He later gained prominence for his role in the Oscar Wilde biopic Wilde (1997), for which he won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer as well as a London Film Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of Lord Alfred Douglas, [26][27] the glamorous young lover of Stephen Fry 's Wilde. [12]
Sep 17, 2024 · But with the arrival of an unexpected houseguest, the aristocratic young poet Lord Alfred Douglas, Constance gradually --- and then all at once --- comes to see that her husband’s heart is elsewhere and that the growing intensity between the two men threatens the whole foundation of their lives.
Sep 25, 2024 · Vae Victis! Poem by Lord Alfred Douglas. Poems Books Biography Comments. Vae Victis! In this land where the sun still glows like an ember,. In mid-November. The dead things of summer. And the cows in the clover. Makes the birds faint and swoon. Makes musical droning. But vainly, alas ! And thrown her arms around me. Dead leaves in my heart.
Sep 18, 2024 · The real-life Irish/English playwright (he tried to downplay the Irish part) Oscar Wilde, a prodigy and a fool, met a tragic end brought on by his own hubris and an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, his “homme fatal” (an apt coinage of the critic John Lahr).
Sep 17, 2024 · It’s that prodigious talent—and that the world was robbed of it so cruelly after Wilde was convicted of “gross indecency” for his love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas—that has made Wilde’s legacy a stinging reminder of the devastation wrought by society’s intolerance and bigotry.
Sep 17, 2024 · But with the arrival of an unexpected houseguest, the aristocratic young poet Lord Alfred Douglas, Constance gradually—and then all at once—comes to see that her husband’s heart is elsewhere and that the growing intensity between the two men threatens the whole foundation of their lives.
