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5. Ji-hyun Park, Jin Kim
Queensberry Affair
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6. Collapse of Oscar Wilde : Queensberry Affair

8. Think!!!
What is Queensberry?

9. How did they fall in love at first sight ??
1. Oscar Wilde, a writer who was becoming well know
The best playwriter and writer of the Victoria era.
One of the few artists who were able to become famous.
A bisexual who had a wife and two sons : his first lover was his editor.
Famous pieces
The happy prince
The picture of Dorian Grey
Salome

10. How did they fall in love at first sight??
2. Prodigal university student
Alfred Douglas, son of Marquess of Queenberry
A pretty handsome man who has a poet and noble debauchee
Oscar Wilde called him, ‘Bosie’
Hot-blooded, reckless Alfred doesn’t want to hide their relationship
Relationships : A method where he could defy his father.

11. 1895 Trial changed his life
Slow collapse
Lord Queensberry sued Wilde
• Lord Queensberry found several letters written by Wilde and Douglas which contained sexual
expressions
First, Trial was advantageous
• At first, he was favorable because of eloquence.
• In sequence he failed by rentboys’ testimony
Lose a case
• He was incarcerated in a prison workshop for 2 years.
• He injured an ear and suffered from after effects his whole life.

12. And they lived happily ever after?
- After his prison term, he went to France with Douglas.
- However, their love relationship was already over in prison.
- Wilde missed his two sons, Vivian and Siril.
- He died in poverty, a infection from his wounded ear.
When he died, all the books he wrote were prohibited from both
publishing.

13. After he died
Alfred Douglas married a woman. But he soon divorced and his son died
in madness.
Siril died in WW1 suffering from his father. But Vivian became an author
after Wilde.
What about Constance?
She died earlier than Wilde.
She was left alone for many years.

14. “WILDE”