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rather pretty house for those times, built I think by Flynn of the old Bowery Theater —I think he played

the "Iron Chest" both pieces besides all you name I saw him in—at this representation I speak of—he played

— a very good singer I believe for she was before my time—but a very bad immoral woman—they were playing

theater goer in my time—I am getting a little in the "sere and yellow leaf" now—but I still enjoy the play

He introduced many famous British actors to New York and with his focus on spectacle, Price played a

William Macready (1793–1873) was a British stage actor, who played Shakespearean roles, including Richard

While the duel apparently never took place, Webb continuted to editorialize against the couple and played

novels Ruth Hall (1855) and Rose Clark (1856), as well as her collection of stories for children The Play-Day

Hamlet's Note-book (1886), which argued that Sir Francis Bacon had written the plays attributed to Shakespeare

Dear Walt Whitman, These last days have been so crowded with work & play, that there has been no fair

, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done; I will play

, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done; I will play

, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemned by others for deeds done; I will play

This view seems to play out Werner's notion that this "feudal element" was so important that Whitman

And if, as Miller suggests, the muse plays a different tune to the older poet, Whitman never loses sight

Courts, the latter being a species of power incident to the Legislative power of the United States. 1 Peters

Canter , 1 Peters, 542.

In the course of the afternoon, Peter Brown, the lately married blacksmith, came over to Thorne's to

"I am told," said Peter, "that there is a fine herd of deer which some of our folks have several times

They know that no critic could, by reading a play, evolve a portrait of the man whom an original actor

Yet this by-play of the great actress was such that the audience, looking at her, forgot to listen to

They contain acting editions of the plays in which she appeared, edited by Mrs. Inchbald.

Siddons play this part you scarcely can believe that any acting could make her part subordinate.

The notes on this play will now be given, only so much of each scene being quoted as is necessary to

Curious when he learned I was on my way to Philadelphia to hear Von Bulow play.

for a full hour, facing the golden sunset, in the cool evening breeze, with the summer lightning playing

The famous white hat sat on the top of his thick snowy hair, and the flickering gaslights played in unromantic

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

Sun Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 4[–5] March [1872]

papers—he comes & sits a few minutes every morning before going to work—he has been very good indeed—he & Peter

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Islander

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

.— It is a curious and not over favorable sign of the times that in our newspapers, novels, plays, and

Probably you do not, nor that you used to be very good to them, playing "tag" and marbles with them—now

bird is singing—the cars are puffing & rattling, & the children of the neighborhood are all outdoors playing—So

knowing I do)—I am writing for the magazine market—or rather have written—a reminiscence of the actors & plays

thousands on the Town Hall Square—the great central open space in the town—to listen to the band which plays

midnight & upon the last stroke of 12 everybody wishes everybody else a "Happy New Year," the band then playing

It makes me think of the fellow in the play: he says to some other—'I can invoke spirits from the deep

Magnificent playing in cricket match on grounds—a patient—Rev.

The passionate, teeming play this cur- curtain tain hid!)

warm —wish when you write Mother you would always say something abt Hattie's learning to read and play

would like to see you verry much for I like Uncle Walter verry much now dont think I am trying to play

Peter Brown was indeed much injured.

sure that the course of 'justice'—were the people allowed to remain with the unquestionable belief of Peter

For instance, in 1625, the Dutch governor, Peter Minnet, Peter Minnet (alternately Minuit) was appointed

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:268.

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:25. —and later ones of the great Kean.

Peters, and Doctors A. C. Post, T. F.

Kaplan's point is borne out by a brief and informative biography of Peter Doyle, Martin G.

Murray's "'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle" (1994), which sketches Whitman's relationship

"'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1994): 1-51. 

After all he had his part to play: he stood for unification, condensation, compactness, nationality—not

"I remember how well Harry Placide rendered this—he played the character.

After the cycles, poems, singers, plays, Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shakspere Shakespeare — all

He was a minor but colorful poet whose romantic verse, plays, and prose mainly glorified the West.

enervation, and producing depression and enervation as their result;—or else that class of poetry, plays

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

Dante, flocks of singing birds, The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

background, atmosphere, out of which he emerges, into which and in which he flings and bathes, and plays

break—exquisite melody of speech, fire of life, possible only in fortunate hours, as if by some unpredictable play

To Wallace, "Have you never seen the play? I should advise you to take the first chance."

Then, "Bulwer has made his title clear by several of his plays, if no way else: by this, by 'The Maid

About Alboni and her two children in Italy greatly moving: her evident thought of them as she played

returns to the one force, element—whatever it is called: all life is a witness to the basic part so played

been a great worry to the fellows: and to me, too: a puzzle: the Sonnets being of one character, the Plays

Try to think of the Shakespeare plays: think of their movement: their intensity of life, action: everything

hell-bent to get along: on: on: energy—the splendid play of force: across fields, mire, creeks: never

He regarded the Plays as being "tremendous with the virility that seemed so totally absent from the Sonnets

This phrase comes from Robert Montgomery Ward's popular 1831 play The Gladiator, written for Edwin Forrest

.; This phrase comes from Robert Montgomery Ward's popular 1831 play The Gladiator, written for Edwin

that takes its title from the mischievous forest sprite of the same name in William Shakespeare's play

During the Civil War, he played a significant role at the Battle of Antietam and rose to the rank of

Peter and St. Michael and the Virgin Mary.— 2 Before the vesper hour, lo!

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

The truth is, we have plenty of rich men here, but we have no philanthropists of the Peter Cooper stamp—none