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Alluded to Castle with considerable affection—"he plays, I see—and who else, do you know?"

W. himself very philosophical over it, said, "This is not the first time I have been played with—I could

Lychenheim sent W. back by Ed a book of the play. Wednesday, August 7, 1889

suggested: "How would you like it for us to arrange to have him come over to see you in the fall, while he plays

There were lines in the play last night in which Salvini's magnificent voice and passion forced a close

Of the play itself he questioned me closely. "What was the Iago like?" and so on.

After him nobody can play that part." Mrs. Bowers had been in yesterday's cast.

While sitting there we heard the play of the whistling buoy down the river at one of the ship-yards at

He admitted "Francesca da Rimini" was "much of a play"—adding—"I knew Boker—met him: he had the look

theatre-going—'The Captain's not a-Miss'—not a bad pun, as puns go, on the word—seized from some point in the play

Hackett did not play it often.

modelledmodeled a good deal on the formal theatrical rules—he makes too much of the farcicality of the play—like

I have seen him many times—liked him best in the plays he plays least, or now not at all—did play in

Shakespeare had it—putting his enemies into verse—into a play, what-not.

It gives play of itself, naturally, without interpretation so-called, to grandest, most vital forces,

Generally, on weekdays, there are boys playing base ball—a fine air of activity, life, but yesterday

then—told Warrie, too—how much better it would be for the boys to be in the place—how much better the play

Siddons' book about actors, plays?

In it she speaks of Lady Macbeth—the Lady of the plays—insists that she was not what the world conceives

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

"Take this," he said, "to peter Montgomerie—perhaps it would interest him—or even you by the way."

cane—slowly going to the door—stood in the doorway, his back to us—his face turned—the light of the gas playing

He laughed when I mentioned Zola in connection with French "delicacy, finesse—an exquisite play"—his

Their company is now in the city—have 'A Possible Case'—a play of some sort, of which I know nothing.

He spoke of the Richard as "a favorite play" of his.

Were the Shakespeare plays the best acting plays? W. said: "That's a superstition—an exaggeration."

They played the devil with it over there.

O'Connor takes the view that there is something behind the Shakespeare plays—that the play's not the

while play has in it the vehemence of faith.

of sitting with his glasses stuck on the thumb of his left hand while he uses his right hand for playing

He spoke of the Richard as "a favorite play" of his.

"It is typical: the most likely, conclusive of the Shakespeare plays."

Then Shakespeare was to palm the plays off as his own? Was that the idea?

Harned said: "The Plays are so great won't they stand alone for all time?"

Were the Shakespeare plays the best acting plays? W. said: "That's a superstition—an exaggeration."

She found that he was a distant relative of Bill's—a friend: was playing her face right along: using

It is a complete narrative of Bacon's life and times, regularly underlying the text of the plays, and

servant, Henry Percy, acknowledges to Queen Elizabeth his own authorship of Richard Second and the other plays

sympathy with the Jack Cades or Wat Tylers, would have sent its author at once to the block, and the play

damn you all: what right have you, with your fripperies, poems, proses, to catch the public eye, to play

valuable, necessary, class of men than the men who are under all conditions, all shifts of weather, all play

I said: "You didn't need to play Emerson: he was on your side without it."

W. said in a fiery voice: "Who the hell talked about playing anybody?"

They played the devil with it over there.

Commenced playing with the fire. Talked as he worked.

O'Connor takes the view that there is something behind the Shakespeare plays—that the play's not the

My memory never played me such a mean trick: I've had horrible experiences to meet, endure—but my memory

I said: "Someone told me that Winter takes the ground that no Italian has any right to play Shakespeare

guilty: I know it is: what I really had in mind was the curio, not the human or historic element, that plays

I have written plays, comedy and tragedy, allegory, satire, and biting political pieces, a few of them

Yet for its better advancement I have to play the part of a grateful citizen—part repugnant!

It is a study—a profound study—the play in life as much as the work in life—and it is all right, too,

Sometimes you don't pay too much for play if you pay your last cent for it."

I find my memory sometimes playing me tricks—working a little rusty: I may be saying to myself, 'it was

contemptible, the more utterly contemptible, seem his style and make—up, the instrument upon which he plays

Perhaps I ought to apologize for saying so much to you about a matter which I know plays but the smallest

There's the story of Lige: it plays the dickens with the character of Stonewall Jackson—taking him down

Monday, August 20, 1888.W. spent today depressed—physically "played-out like," as he said.

They are not parts of a play—acts one, two, three—or chapters of a romance—that they need to be put together

I spoke of Anna's excellent piano playing, W. taking it up: "Have you noticed that, too, Horace?

He is certainly the Winter of my discontent mentioned by Lord Bacon in his play of Richard III.

—referring to Amelie Rives' play there printed in full. "Oh no—I am not prepared to tackle that.

It is my old play-book, used many and many times in my itinerant theatre days: Richard: Shakespeare's

Richard: are of the best of the plays, I always say—one of the best—in it's vehemence, power, even in

Will the people ever come to base ball, plays, concerts, yacht races, on Sundays?

sad-devout, not sickly-religious: but a man full of blood who didn't hesitate to outrage ascetic customs or play

Hunter has a little flirtiness in his composition—likes to play out his learning diplomatically.

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

letter of a literary man but of a man: a man simply possessed of the first impulse to help make fair play

alone or chiefly because of her eyes, her complexion, the mellowness of her body, though these, too, play

here he had the fife on the little stand by his cot,—he once told me that if he got well he would play

nature in her large meanings, growths, evolutions: who enters most naturally, sympathetically, into the play

I do not know that I really care who made the plays—who wrote them.

book—that slanders, flings, hatreds, jealousies, constitute the staple of his motive in making the plays

ShaksperShakespeare the actor as a person and how much less is known of the person Shakespeare of the plays

Did you ever notice—how much the law is involved with the plays?

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

Harned asked: "Are you then prepared to say the plays were written by Bacon?"

The contention reminds me of an incident that occurred in a play in one of the New York theaters in my

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

There was one play (I forget its name) in which Placide carried along a rather odd scene.

The first thing necessary is the thought—the rest may follow if it chooses—may play its part—but must

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

the proposition I set forth in the Leaves, considering the rumpus I made, considering my refusal to play

Well, it's nearly ready—only I play a little for time—I am fencing for another day or two.

W. played with some sheets of paper on his table and recurred to the subject today, finally handing me

The obvious retort is, that I have never really heard it played.

Wednesday afternoon I played the delightful game of lawn tennis with them and their friends and the following

day I was asked to go and play tennis at the Rectory two miles off.

"It is my final belief that the Shakespearean plays were written by another hand than Shaksper'sShakespeare's—I

W. discussed with Harned some legal features involved in the plays.

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