At his trial for criminal indecency in 1895, the Irish writer Oscar Wilde was asked to define what was meant by the phrase ‘the love that dare not speak its name’. The quote was from a sonnet entitled ‘Two Loves’ which was written by his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. By asking him to translate this poetic allusion into a factual prose definition, the prosecution were seeking to...
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