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All work seem'd seemed play to him.

O'Connor attempted to defend Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's Baconian argument—his theory that Shakespeare's plays

idea Donnelly wrote about in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's 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

Peters John Addington Symonds to Walt Whitman, 7 February 1872

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

He was the author of numerous plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

—I liked too to get out into the "bush"—chipmunks calling & playing about me—one little fellow descending

a tree in front of me & playing about for fully 5 minutes before running off amid the rustling leaves

coming into supper, & then adjourning to the barn, where to the light of 2 or 3 candles Johnston played

is referencing Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play

Helena Modjeska (1840–1909) was a well-known Polish actress, particularly famous for playing Shakespearean

Outside, the sky perfectly clear & cloudless, the fountain playing, the trees across the open space,

—Evening spent in the house—chiefly in learning & playing "Pedro" with Willie & his friends.

As we approached along the avenue a band struck up, playing by lamplight, the new moon shining over head

Everyone manifestly glad to see him back—talk & laughter, band playing all the time—now "Home, Sweet

I met Maurice Barrymore, the actor who was playing in "Held by the Enemy" at the Academy last week.

champion before taking up acting; he emigrated to the United States and debuted in Augustin Daly's play

A play by William Gillette (1853–1937), set during the Civil War, and now recognized as having a significant

obliged by your kind offer of the little M.S. manuscript on "What lurks behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written during the Years 1868–1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter

Sir: Before pronouncing on the petition of Peter Targarona "for pardon, & remission of forfeiture," the

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Peter Mitilineos. Washington, D.C.: NCR Microcard Editions, 1973.McCain, Rea.

Responding to different cultural and ideological needs, they played important and well-differentiated

Across the Atlantic , edited by Marina Camboni, Andrea Carosso, Sonia Di Loreto, and Marco Mariano (Peter

ideological construction of society, tells of the new role writers and intellectuals were expected to play

One year later, in 1989, the film Dead Poets Society , directed by Peter Weir, made Whitman popular again

played a large role in that film, of course) and the book's appeal to a larger, and possibly younger,

The "corps" has been playing for some time in that capital—but hitherto, from some underhand intrigue

She was known for playing "chambermaids, romps, and rural damsels with great archness and spirit."

"[H]e played in the principal theatres in the Union," such as the Chatham Garden and Park Theatres in

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

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

She was known for playing "chambermaids, romps, and rural damsels with great archness and spirit."

"[H]e played in the principal theatres in the Union," such as the Chatham Garden and Park Theatres in

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.

When played by the regimental band in the western wilderness, rather than in a city opera house, the

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Van Egmond, Peter. "Bryn Mawr College Library Holdings of Whitman Books." 20 (June 1974): 41-50.

Steel called the tale "weirdly Hawthornesque" and contended that Whitman "told his whist playing friends

The insanity that played a memorable role in several of Poe's stories appears in Whitman's "Bervance:

New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. 1998. Blalock, Stephanie, and Nicole Gray.

Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855 New York: Peter

At the same time he plays on the multiple meanings of the verb "exponserse," which can mean both to risk

arrive with powerful musics, between the thundering of my trumpets and of my drums, I do not only play

marches for sacred victors, I also play them for the vanquished and the victims.

Terry (1847–1928) was a member of Henry Irving's company, famous for her appearances in Shakespeare plays

and destruction, the roles Whitman's writing and the books he helped to produce have continued to play

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Riley, Peter J. L. " and Real Estate." 28 (Spring 2011): 163–87.

Stallybrass, Peter.

As Whitman's health failed, he needed more help with daily tasks, and from the mid-1880s, Traubel played

"Scores of lesser-known writers produced temperance novels, stories, poems, plays, and periodicals,"

temperance out of Franklin Evans for publication in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846, however, he also played

Conclusion Whitman's decision to play down the temperance theme when he republished Franklin Evans as

thinking through dynamics that would eventually become central to Leaves of Grass , including the play

New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Blanck, Jacob, comp. Bibliography of American Literature . 9 vols.

Jeff played the guitar and sang pleasantly, and Walt encouraged such musical inclinations by purchasing

poet developed during his work in the hospitals (and indeed for his relationships after the war with Peter

As an independent consultant he played a major role in planning the Milwaukee sewer system, incorporating

Emory Holloway (New York: Peter Smith Press, 1921), II, 37-41.

Whitman feared that the Confederate authorities were "playing foul" by moving George and other officers

[A few days later:] W. told Ed: “Play your violin: play it as much as you choose: I like it: when I am

Ed at first played in the next room. I advised him to play downstairs.

Think of it—the games they play—the travesty!

Peter Doyle no writer In October 1891 Whitman was surprised to learn that Peter Doyle was thenbasedinBaltimore

Greeks versus Shakespeare The Shakespeare plays are essentially the plays of an aristocracy: they are

Croce saw all of history as a playing out of the human spirit into a multitude of individual acts.

It is an insistent, a loud work, like a long piece of music played continuously con brio.

Peter Bondanella and Julia Conaway Bondanella (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996)143; Antonio Gramsci

AAminta: a lyric, pastoral play first performed in 1573; considered Torquato Tasso’s most important and

That is, while he composed the national epic in which the figures and forces creating the nation play

Awakening, Protestant pulpit style, particularly that of evangelicals, became freer and more varied and played

For further reading, see Peter Adams, The Bowery Boys: Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion

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expansive life—a life which, while careless of sub- tleties, has turned unfailing reverence upon the play

rivulets and bigger streams of literature—there is a splendid lesson that such notes as there is in the play

At the end of that interesting play, which I have seen, a great fellow who is in pursuit of it comes

Who will play his part for him? And Hawthorne—wasn't he expected?

How strange that Shelley and "Leaves of Grass" should play upon him together!

Whitman .—[ To Traubel ].— Did he suppose we intended that he should be left out of the play?

Peter D. Oakey was the successor of Rev. James M. McDonald, mentioned below.

An Abraham Smith is included in a list of men who petitioned Governor Peter Stuyvesant to settle in this

area of Long Island and whom Peter Ross calls “the first citizens of Jamaica” (549).

See Peter Ross, A History of Long Island: from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (New York:

anticipating the description in the following lines: "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

naked in the swimming-bath," the "embrace of love and resistance" of two young boy wrestlers, the "play

presents women as exceedingly sexual, for "mad filaments, ungovernable shoots" of erotic attraction play

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed; Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed; Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

hair rumpled over and blind- ing blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

hair rumpled over and blind- ing blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

Appropriate for a poem about music, the sound effects are multiple, striking, and subtle (e.g., the play

it out vi et armis , the rest of the population of the building grouping around, either to see fair play

Hugo's plays were also enjoying successful performances on the New York stage.

Whitman told Horace Traubel that "Hugo's immortal works were the dramas, the plays, the poems: least

In a 1946 essay Hughes expressed his belief that, since Whitman had played with slave children in his

It should then be much out of doors, and should play, dance, sing, and shout as nature dictates.

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Here were the calcined bone, fresh from Peter Cooper’s, the feldspar, glittering with mica and newly