![]() The card read: “For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite.” (Perhaps history’s most infamous spelling error.) Wilde’s friends, including Robbie Ross, begged him to let it go, but Douglas urged him to sue Queensberry for criminal libel. Queensberry had planned to attend the premier and publicly humiliate Wilde by throwing a bouquet of rotting vegetables onto the stage - but Wilde had made sure to ban him from the theater - which didn’t actually help calm things down at all.įour days later, Queensberry left a calling card for Wilde at a club he was known to frequent. The show itself was hailed as a massive success, even by most critics. The cast was led by popular actor Allan Aynesworth, who later stated that the first night of that show was his greatest triumph on stage. James Theatre - The Importance of Being Earnest. On February 14 of 1895, Wilde’s greatest script premiered in London at the St. ![]() He cornered Oscar in the Wilde family’s London house and threatened him - the initial description of this encounter ended with Wilde giving a clever retort (“I don’t know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight”) but later accounts by both Wilde and Queensberry make Wilde sound much less assured and much more afraid - and with good reason. (Spoiler alert: it’s not good.) Now, Queensberry and his son fought like all of the time even before Wilde entered the picture - and even though Queensberry was initially charmed by Wilde, it didn’t take him long to piece together what was actually going on with the two. Oh, and all of the stuff we’re going to talk about. He’s mostly known in history for being cruel to his family and for creating the Queensberry Rules which, apparently, are what modern boxing rules are based around. Sometimes, Douglas would meet them there too.ĭouglas’ father was John Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry (more commonly known just as Queensberry). Every time he rendezvoused with a pro stitute, it followed the same pattern - Wilde was introduced to a young man by a fellow named Alfred Taylor, Wilde would take the young man to dinner, and then to a hotel room. Douglas also led Wilde into the seedy underground of London’s gay prostitution circles. Douglas and several of his friends founded a magazine called The Chameleon, which was as pro-gay as any publication could be at the time without being shut down by law enforcement. In many ways, Douglas quickly became the center of Wilde’s entire world. No longer tied to John Gray, Wilde’s relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas turned romantic, and Wilde used that ample income to spoil his new beau. By now Wilde was earning approximately 100 pounds each week - by today’s standards that’s about 12,211 pounds or 15,756 US dollars a week. He was then commissioned for two more comedies. He followed this work up with the 1893 comedy A Woman of No Importance. James Theatre on Februand proceeded to tour England - despite the outrage of more conservative critics. ![]() He penned the tragedy Salomé, but quickly turned to comedies. With his literary success following 1891’s publication of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde returned to writing for the theater.
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