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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 his poetry and prose, Simpson has played an influential role in the ongoing "dialogue" between post-World

of Lucrece (1594), and 154 sonnets, this Renaissance poet and playwright remains best known for his plays

, which include histories, comedies, tragicomedies (the so-called problem plays), tragedies (most notably

While he recognized and acknowledged Shakespeare's poems and plays as masterpieces, he at the same time

Shakespeare's works, reading and rereading them and even carrying a copy of the Sonnets or one of the plays

Indeed, Whitman memorized long passages from Shakespeare's plays (especially from Richard II), then "

echoes and phrases from "Song of Myself": "I have heard the melodious harp / On the streets of Cork playing

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

Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Sander L. Gilman. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1991. 199–223.

.: Peter Smith, 1972. 139–141. ———. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. Ed. Edward F.

Turkey (1871–1875) and Russia (1875) and is best known for Francesca da Rimini (staged 1855), a popular play

Boker was dissatisfied with his theatrical career and desperately wanted a following for his Plays and

periodical editor throughout his long career and wrote across the genres: fiction, sketches, poetry, and plays

.: Peter Smith, 1972. lviii–lix n15. Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life.

Sadakichi (ca. 1867–1944) Like the character he played in the 1924 film The Thief of Bagdad, Whitman

Sadakichi Hartmann played court magician to successive bohemian circles.

Allen sees the grandfather in this story as a variation on the cruel father theme that plays through

There is some humorous play in the sketch.

In January 1865, in his capacity as Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Ashton played a

turned to the Bowery b'hoy, a figure of urban street culture who had been mythologized in popular plays

Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972.____. "Walt Whitman and His Poems." In Re Walt Whitman. Ed.

A Parody," "Death of the Nature-Lover" (revision of "My Departure"), "The Play-Ground," "Ode," "The House

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Pride

Whitman's musical working of regularized accentual contours drawn from speech is able to contain the play

contemporary sources, including animal magnetism, phreno-magnetism, and phrenology.Though the various roles played

Schyberg concluded that Whitman remained identified with his mother throughout his life, and often played

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Reading, Whitman's

Yet in 1898, James finds Whitman's posthumously published letters to Peter Doyle in Calamus "positively

example, see "To Thee Old Cause" and "To a Certain Cantatrice"), and he envisioned the United States as playing

The rhetorician is interested in the ways that writers play on these different identities, highlighting

.: Peter Smith, 1972.____. Walt Whitman's Workshop: A Collection of Unpublished Manuscripts. Ed.

rejection of false identity ("the sham that was proposed to me" in 1860, originally "the costume, the play

Two issues that are of increasing critical interest concern the role played by sentimentality in shaping

proposition in the two-volume The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays

Bacon-authorship proposal had been launched first in book form—Was Lord Bacon the Author of Shakespeare's Plays

The theory gained prominence through Delia Bacon's The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded

finds the revision rather pointless because he feels that for all the poet's supposed intimacy with Peter

Whitman plays with the conventional meaning of the word "prudence" by employing the vocabulary of finance—good

Traces of this same paradox also play through "Song of the Answerer."

"Song of the Banner" plays a similar role in what eventually became the "Drum-Taps" cluster.

can, with Thomas, read the poem's opening lines as a ritual purification of the axe so that it can play

DavidKuebrichSoul, TheSoul, TheWhitman's understanding of the soul is extremely complex, and it plays

exuberance and excitement do not allow the speaker to advance a carefully reasoned argument; the poem plays

Moreover, Stoics tend to see one's personal existence as a role in a play directed by nature, thus conceiving

Between the two ends of the spectrum, however, Whitman displays great artistry in the play of stanza

Section 11 of "Song of Myself," for instance, owes much of its dreamlike tone to the delicate play of

here uses correctly; it is the musical notation for full tonality of all instruments in an orchestra played

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

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

Its history from 1854 to the time of Whitman's visit was a crucible for the struggle that played such

he unceremoniously exited Washington for Camden, which left him separated from his intimate friend, Peter

formed the nucleus of "Calamus," and it gave Whitman the idea of the "cluster," a formal feature that plays

However, both Peter Rechnitzer's recent study and the Canadian film Beautiful Dreamers, which depicts

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992. 141–151.Rechnitzer, Peter A. R.M.

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Island Patriot

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Island Star

Whitman's major lovers—Fred Vaughan, Peter Doyle, and Harry Stafford—were cut from much the same depressive

Peter Buffett's musical score merges various voices, emphasizing the film's themes of hope, joy, compassion

(Available on video.)Whitman is frequently quoted in director Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society (1989),

produced Song of Myself (first broadcast 9 March 1976), starring Rip Torn as Whitman and Brad Davis as Peter

which set Whitman's verse to original synthesizer music.In 1995 playwright Alan Brody and composer Peter

between Whitman's last breath of inspiration and his last exhalation, with dialogues between Whitman and Peter

New York: Peter Smith, 1932. Mississippi River

Paul, and experienced the virtuoso playing of the French violinist Henry Vieuxtemps and the Norwegian