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

theatre as an actor and director (she directed and acted in the production of one of Ernest Rhys's plays

of my book the ensuing summer —stereotyped—( positively last appearance for the season &c) as the play

bells are all ringing for 7 oclock church—there is a chime of bells in one of the churches—they are playing

three letters to you last week, & papers—I knew that policeman Doyle that was shot dead here—he was Peter

heavy-headed, congested—good fire—no mail for me to-day—Warren has gone out sleighing—I hear the boys playing

Whitman is referring to King Lear, the titular character of William Shakespeare's play King Lear (1606

In the play, Lear abdicates his throne and loses his former glory, becoming insane and impoverished.

Claude Melnotte is a character in the play The Lady of Lyons; or, Love and Pride, which was written by

The play was first performed in London's Convent Garden Theatre in the late-1830s, and it became the

To Richings's Caliban, how sweetly she could then play and sing the gentle Ariel.

Hers was playing.

She "did" Marianne, in The Wife; and many a man, who had visited the theatre for years, then saw playing

He started performing at the Park Theatre as a child, acted in numerous plays, and, later, leased and

She acted in many principal women's roles of the era, including playing Juliet in William Shakespeare's

I saw the procession return about 8 o'clock, music playing, and so forth; contrary to the usual practice

, they played the most plaintive marches and held a solemn demeanor.

Collins continues at the Broadway; Esmeralda at the Park; Hamblin is playing a round of tragedy characters

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

Chanfrau (1824–1884) was an actor and theatre manager who, in 1848, played the part of the Bowery b'hoy

Mose in Benjamin Baker's (1818–1890) hit play A Glance at New York in 1848.

Forrest played all last week at the Broadway to crowded and applauding houses. Mr.

He is very popular, and really plays better than any Irish comedian at present among us.

Barrett, who will probably play together.

Whichever house they don't play in should forthwith checkmate them by engaging Charlotte Cushman, who

Chanfrau (1824–1884) was an actor and theatre manager who, in 1848, played the part of the Bowery b'hoy

Mose in Benjamin Baker's (1818–1890) hit play A Glance at New York in 1848.

an English actor who gained renown throughout New York for his portrayal of Jemmy Twitcher in the play

He played an "English pickpocket" and his performance was considered a "unique and laughable personation

By 1845, Sefton had played Jemmy Twitcher 360 times in New York City.

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

beautiful flag )—the great drum corps of sixty or eighty drummers massed at the heads of the brigades, playing

whistling fifes—but they sounded very lively—(perhaps a band of sixty drums & fifteen or twenty fifes playing

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

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

been a beautiful day—I am now sitting in my room, by the stove, but there is hardly need of a fire—Peter

now to improve in walking—& then I shall begin to feel all right—(but am still very feeble & slow)—Peter

been—he says I am doing very well— John Burroughs is here temporarily—he comes in often—Eldridge and Peter

whatever I wish—& two or three good friends here—So I want you to not feel at all uneasy—as I write, Peter

In Jeff's youth, Walt helped him learn to read, played games with him, and stimulated his love of music

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

taken in 1877, then Whitman may have been referring to this image when he wrote from Philadelphia to Peter

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

Peter and Paul (Catholic) You might also read the Catholic life of Jesus Christ Pray Sts.

Peter and Paul to cure you and have Votive Masses (P & P) prayers and Communions made on 29.

In a letter to Peter Doyle, Whitman wrote that Dr.

Peter N.

Peter W.

Halligan, Peter W. “Phantom Limbs: The Body in Mind.”

Sacks, Peter M. The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats.

But I, for my part—we—must not play the game with that end in view.

He often plays with his penknife, opening and shutting as he talks.

Lust, whiskey, such things, played heavy cards in his game of life.

I doubt whether I would ever care for the play." Better today.

Tom, don't play with fire."

But I, for my part—we—must not play the game with that end in view.

were offensive to him: there was something crude, powerful, drastic, in the Shakes-speareShakespeare plays

deserted, fall from his high place, sink into total obscurity: but on the stage, at the moment, while the play

Whitman,These last days have been so crowded with work and play that there has been no fair chance to

importance in a day—amputations, blood, death are nothing to him—you will see a group absorbed in playing

He often plays with his penknife, opening and shutting as he talks.

my first tries with the lute—in that book I am just like a man tuning up his instrument before the play

They had played Raff's "Lenore" Symphony among other things.Evening, 8:00.

The whole subject, Beethoven, and the playing absolutely without note.

But the average pianist plays by sight only, and has no ears.

He listened intently while Anna played a fine air (and played it finely) on the piano.

and played around the chair.

Peter's. It is grand, grand—O how grand!

They were reviving a whole series of old English plays: very good, staple plays: I saw a good many of

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

There is much in the plays that is offensive to me, anyhow: yes, in all the plays of that period: a grandiose

Kennedy came along and put in a demurrer, W. resuming: "The Shakespeare plays are essentially the plays

"That's a little of Maurice's stage-play," he said: "he will go: Bucke knows, as we all know, that the

said at once: "At least as potential: at least, at least: there may be more reasons some days for playing

He smiled sadly: "I'd give a lot to be able to play a game of foot and a half with you this minute."

me, I get nearer to them, than any others: they have no axe to grind, no wires to pull, no game to play

William, who couldn't write his name, was the author of reams of plays of the most astonishing quality

couldn't be weak if he tried: he has no resources of the pettifying order—no idiocy—in him: even his play

while play has in it the vehemence of faith.

nothing of Tannhäuser: I only know some of its friends—like you, for example: I know some bits of it played

towards the floor—"was honest—that his integrity was beyond any corrupting influence: that he would play

Tom is not only straight but shrewd: he is a past master in the engineering of corporations: Doctor played

Look at our stage: in fact we have no stage at all: a jumble of plays packed together without logic or

It occurs to me we have so far not had one American play—not one.

He said: "You are my right bower: I can't play the game without you." Wednesday, March 27, 1889

It's a feeble copy of the British Micawberism: British humbug about British fair play, British liberty

were originally Democrats but when the time came we went over with a vengeance: it was no role, no play

W. said: "I guess the economics play a part: that's rather your cue than mine: I have heard about Glasgow

reasons for it—some innate, some political: the anti habit is more or less active in all of it: it plays

Donnelly has made lately a remarkable discovery—that the two folio editions of the plays following the

I asked W.: "There was Nicholas Bacon: what part did he perform in the mystery of the plays?"

Have you the idea that Nicholas was somehow intimately, dynamically, a party to the production of the plays

Young Kersley and Danney came for me in a carriage at 1, and bro't me back at 5; enjoy'd the ride, the play

O'Connor, is veritably a Peter the Hermit, a Luther."

all then laughingly going their ways again: no scheme, no reward: just the finer human impulse at play

chief figure in a box with Childs, Dayton and self on the eve of the 24th inst at the opening of my play