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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!

Later, Whitman would get a first-hand report of the assassination from his friend Peter Doyle, an Irish

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

Crossing" is a very visual poem, conveying a strong sense of particular detail, the play of light, and

In the first he is walking with Eve, content, taking delight in the "quivering fire that ever plays"

punishment, temperance, slavery, and health issues; and literature and the arts, including reviews of plays

Whitman explains the function of the "Passage to India" cluster in this way: "As in some ancient legend-play

Although Whitman was not an eyewitness, his close companion, Peter Doyle, was at Ford's Theater, and

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Islander

Conrad, Peter. The Art of the City. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984. Jackson, Kenneth T., ed.

avoid seeing her, or meeting her" (Notebooks 2:889), he had originally written "him," referring to Peter

In the historical plays, Shakespeare undermines, perhaps unconsciously, the feudal system.

In English, slang functions like the clowns in Shakespeare's plays.

The moods awakened in him by music played and sung in the streets, in the theater and in private shaped

100,000 veterans from all corners of the United States.Whitman widened his circle of friends, meeting Peter

Kaplan's point is borne out by a brief and informative biography of Peter Doyle, Martin G.

Murray's "'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle" (1994), which sketches Whitman's relationship

"'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1994): 1-51. 

And it in turn solidified his conviction that the teacher played a pivotal role in their education.

Murray Doyle, Peter (1843–1907) The romantic friendship that Walt Whitman shared with Peter Doyle embodied

Peter Doyle made a lasting contribution to Whitman biography in 1897 when he allowed Richard Maurice

Peter Doyle is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Martin G.

"Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1994): 1–51.

And it in turn solidified his conviction that the teacher played a pivotal role in their education.

Martin G.MurrayDoyle, Peter (1843–1907)Doyle, Peter (1843–1907)The romantic friendship that Walt Whitman

shared with Peter Doyle embodied the "love of comrades" celebrated in Whitman's "Calamus" poems.

Peter Doyle is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.Martin G.

"Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."

Doyle, Peter (1843–1907)

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

Burleigh played piano. W. very ready. Greeting everybody gaily. Often with inquiries.

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

aristocracy: they are in fact not as nearly in touch with the spirit of our modern democracy as the plays

Do you find such things in the Shakespeare plays?

I do not—no, nothing of the kind: on the contrary everything possible is done in the Shakespeare plays

Ordinarily he would have played for time. But I could see that he was serious about the warning.

Once he mentioned Peter Doyle. "Where are you Pete? Oh!

should like to have my name written in each book by you (unless you object).I suppose you have seen Peter

that you have not so far forgotten my article as to think my meaning was that attributed to me by Peter

barrister friend of mine, O'Grady, which appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine the same month in which Peter