Oscar Wilde
Oscar's work thrived on the realisation that he was gay, but his private life flew
increasingly in the face of the decidedly anti-homosexual conventions of late Victorian
society. As his literary career flourished, the risk of a huge scandal grew ever larger.
In 1892, on the first night of his acclaimed play "Lady Windermere's Fan", Oscar was re-
introduced to a handsome young Oxford undergraduate, Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed
"Bosie". Oscar was mesmerised by the cocky, dashing and intelligent young man and began
the passionate and stormy relationship which consumed and ultimately destroyed him.
While Oscar had eyes only for Bosie, he embraced the promiscuous world that excited his
lover, enjoying the company of rent boys. In following the capricious and amoral Bosie,
Oscar neglected his wife and children, and suffered great guilt.
And then the dragon awoke. Bosie's father, the violent, eccentric, cantankerous Marquess
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