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I have been much played out this summer, especially the last month.

this it is a very pleasant quiet Sunday—as I sit here by my open window, a lady nearly opposite is playing

are over home—I wish I was there with you all— —As I finish my letter a lady opposite is singing & playing

Printing Office—Old Brooklyn…Lafayette…Broadway Sights…My Passion for Ferries…Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers…Plays

The play of imagination, with the sensuous objects of nature for symbols, and faith—with love and pride

He says "there is another shape of personality dearer far to the artist sense (which likes the play of

Look at this sturdy child of Nature playing with his mother: Hanging clothes on a rail near by, keeping

me over the gaps of the bridge, through impediments, safely aboard"), and would enjoy the stir and play

activity, nor "that other shape of personality dearer far to the artist-sense (which likes the strongest play

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

me over 10 years ago) boxed up & stored with other traps in Washington at the house of old Mr Nash, Peter

You play a prominent part in this picture—seated at table bending over a nosegay of flowers, poetizing

The quote is from Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer's adaptation of the ancient Greek play "Heauton

Elegancies, was the text that was often cited by Baconians as evidence that Bacon was the author of the plays

figures of speech in Bacon to Shakespeare, argued for Bacon as the author behind Shakespeare's famous plays

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

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, June 1883

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

religion, and the democratic adjustments, all these swarms of poems, literary magazines, dramatic plays

He could no more have written the idylls of the King , or a play of Shakespeare than he could have written

Camden N J Dec 9 '83 A young workingman & engineer, Edward Doyle, (brother of my dear friend Peter D.

Whitman referred to Mario in Specimen Days & Collect, published in 1882-1883, in the passages entitled Plays

Yes, unhesitatingly; the plays of the great poet are not only the concentration of all that lambently

played in the best fanciesof those times — not only the gathering sunset ofthe stirringdays of feudalism

corner of the room where there was a group ofyoung children, with whom he talked and laughed and played

I play Alphonso neither togenius nor to God.

, and interpret itas a law of Nature interpretsthe complex play of factswhich proceeds Iroiuit.

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?

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

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!

for you if you want it your telegram recd recieved yesterday too late. for the paper Walt Whitman to Peter

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

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

"What Lurks Behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays?" appeared in The Critic on September 27.

"What Lurks Behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays?"

In the plays—the historical plays especially—Bacon sees the basilisk in all his nature and proportions

"What Lurks Behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays?"

office—he was in St Louis a week—with one of the dramatic Companies  I saw him often—did'nt go to the play

"Be seated, I will sit here where I can see the children at play beneath the green leaves," and the poet

day I went into the country and naked, bathed in sunshine, lived with the birds and squirrels and played

A canary sang with all his might, and a kitten played to and fro.

country, found a secluded Creek, and naked bathed in sunshine, lived with the birds and squirrels and played

issued in a different shape—quite square I should like to have it—so as to give your long lines full play

Whitman's "old fashioned" furniture and a "canary" that "sang with all his might, and a kitten [that] played

yesterday and turned into the unpretentious thoroughfare called Mickle Street, a freckle faced urchin playing

soldier who traversed camp and field as the conquering head of the army while the Camden poet was playing

sonnet I wrote originally for Harper's: " As one by one withdraw the lofty actors From that great play

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

in Philadelphia for the beneficient effects wrought by crisp air, blue skies, endlessly fascinating play

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

doing so irradiated it with an unearthly glory, so bright and genial was the good-natured smile that played

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

This quotation is from a collection of conversations between Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann.

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

After supper talk or play cards until bed time.

. ☞ The best Companies played here last season to good business.

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

Back of that, in still earlier and lower forms of life, sensation or consciousness played its part in

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

such an one should be clothed in pretty dress has been my first consideration— & cudos necessarily plays

; for unless it be the faithful servant in As You Like It, there is not a single character, in his plays

He played the lead role in Clito, a new blank-verse drama set in ancient Greece, written by the English

yesterday afternoon—Wilson Barrett sent over a carriage for me & I had just a good ride, & liked the play

He played the lead role in Clito, a new blank-verse drama set in ancient Greece, written by the English

Greece, written by the English dramatist Sydney Grundy (1848–1914) in collaboration with Barrett, who played

He played the lead role in Clito, a new blank-verse drama set in ancient Greece, written by the English

Walt's favorite brother, Jeff played the piano and had a lively sense of humor.