Heres a virtual movie the great Oscar Wilde reading "Every great love has its tragedy" which he wrote to Alfred Douglas "Bosie" shortly before he was sent to jail in 1895.

In mid-1891 Lionel Johnson introduced Wilde to Alfred Douglas, an undergraduate at Oxford at the time. Known to his family and friends as "Bosie", he was a handsome and spoilt young man. An intimate friendship sprang up between Wilde and Douglas and by 1893 Wilde was infatuated with Douglas and they consorted together regularly in a tempestuous affair. If Wilde was relatively indiscreet, even flamboyant, in the way he acted, Douglas was reckless in public. Wilde shortly before he was sent to jail in 1895.

On 25 May 1895 Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labour

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 -- 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.

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Jim Clark
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