The Invention of Love (2001)

Director: Jack O'Brien

An esoteric play portraying the life of poet A. E. Housman focusing specifically on his personal life and love for a college classmate.

Cast

Robert Sean Leonard

Young Housman

Richard Easton

Older Housman

David Harbour

Moses John Jackson

Michael Stuhlbarg

Alfred William Pollard

Byron Jennings

Benjamin Jowett / Henry Labouchére

Paul Hecht

Jerome K. / John Ruskin

Peter McRobbie

Mark Pattison / W.T. Stead

Mark Nelson

Chamberlain

Guy Paul

John Percival Postgate / Robinson Ellis

Martin Rayner

Frank Harris / Walter Pater