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In the plays—the historical plays especially—Bacon sees the basilisk in all his nature and proportions
fol.00003xxx.00465S.b.89What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?
[manuscript], ca. 1884What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?
leaveshandwritten; A late-stage manuscript of Whitman's essay What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays
What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?
"What Lurks Behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays?"
"What Lurks Behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays?"
for you if you want it your telegram recd recieved yesterday too late. for the paper Walt Whitman to Peter
"What Lurks Behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays?" appeared in The Critic on September 27.
to the theatre last week, & enjoyed it, "Francesca da Rimini"—lots of love-making & hugging in the play
spied me in front, & sent around to ask me to come behind the scenes, which I did at the end of the play
Commonplace Book on January 30: "B[arrett] sent for me behind the stage & I went at the close of the play
knowing I do)—I am writing for the magazine market—or rather have written—a reminiscence of the actors & plays
Suppose, however, he undertook to play the part in a cutaway coat, a plug hat, corduroy trowsers, and
obliged by your kind offer of the little M.S. manuscript on "What lurks behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays
I have written plays, comedy & tragedy, allegory, satire and biting political pieces, a few of them printed
Yet for its better advancement I have to play the part of a genteel citizen,—part repugnant!