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What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?
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Whitman Archive Title: What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?
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Whitman Archive ID: fol.00003
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Repository ID: S.b.89
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in Folger Shakespeare Library
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Repository Title: What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays? [manuscript], ca. 1884
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Date: 1884
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 6 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
A late-stage manuscript of Whitman's essay "What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?", which was first published in the
Critic
on September 27, 1884. The piece would later be republished in
November Boughs
(1888) and
Complete Prose Works
(1892). The manuscript contains detailed handwritten instructions to the printer, as well as various corrections made by Whitman in red ink.
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