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.
