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capital investors — N[elly]'s card came this mn'g—I am easier to-day—Hope the cold in the head is "petering

book" in England (probably The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays

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

The poem by Wellbrock (born in 1949), a Berlin-based writer of poems, short stories, and radio plays,

its part and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces

There played the famous Booth, whom the 15-year-old Whitman had a first chance to see as Richard III.

Gedichte der Nachgeborenen (Wuppertal: Peter Hammer, 1971), 154–155.

Hermann Peter Piwit and Peter Rühmkorf, eds., Literaturmagazin 5. Das Vergehen von Hören und Sehen.

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

of the family in which Edward boarded after his mother's death, Edward sat silently the entire day playing

his family (again, though May 1873) far exceed in number those to any family member: forty-five to Peter

entry_25.html That Walt began his revision earlier is also suggested in his October 9, 1868 letter to Peter

October 9, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle.

William Michael Rossetti's expurgated London edition, Poems by Walt Whitman (Hotten, 1868), may have played

What play of Shakspeare, represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood

wound cuts, First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song, or play

The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays is composed of approximately 250,000 volumes of American

and Canadian poetry, plays, and vocal music dating from 1609 to the present day.

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

wandered alone, bare- headed, barefoot, Down from the showered halo and the moonbeams, Up from the mystic play

Picaninies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with a little round button at the top; and they all fell to playing

Printing Office—Old Brooklyn…Lafayette…Broadway Sights…My Passion for Ferries…Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers…Plays

The play of imagination, with the sensuous objects of nature for symbols, and faith—with love and pride

He says "there is another shape of personality dearer far to the artist sense (which likes the play of

Thompson (1839 or 1840–1911), commonly known as "Snacks" after an amateur role he had once acted in a play

I think John will be delighted with my sword-play.

I have been much played out this summer, especially the last month.

have not again written him, being quite satisfied with letting him know what I thought of his fair-play

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

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

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

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of 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

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

Elegancies, was the text that was often cited by Baconians as evidence that Bacon was the author of the plays

figures of speech in Bacon to Shakespeare, argued for Bacon as the author behind Shakespeare's famous 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

I play Alphonso neither to genius nor to God.

Here in my knowledge is an estimable family which, when the baby playing on the floor kicked up its skirts

This is one of the central ideas which rule the myriad teeming play of his volume, and interpret it as

a law of Nature interprets the complex play of facts which proceeds from it.

"When the children come, you'll have a good time playing with them.

"Old uncle Peter always said he was alive, and going round doing good.

"That's a sample lot of old Peter Dyzer," he resumed. "Lord, sir!

'That's him,—that's Christ,' says old Peter. 'But, Mr.

"I mentioned that old Peter Dyzer left me this place.

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

periodical pretends to cater to; but only, instead, put in to do the poet harm, the dull insults of Peter

Bayne—Peter Bayne, the purblind devotee of weak superstition, whose essays in criticism, marked by such

in his age, his poverty, his infirmity, no friend of his could desire a worthier tribute than fair play

blackened corpse of Glanas swung beside the carcass of the regicide for having translated Plato, and where Peter

day I went into the country and naked, bathed in sunshine, lived with the birds and squirrels and played

A canary sang with all his might, and a kitten played to and fro.

country, found a secluded Creek, and naked bathed in sunshine, lived with the birds and squirrels and played

it is estimated 15,000 Majority for the Union that is the home vote the copperheads are completely played

He made no grand-stand play, nor did we. We just "visited", like "lovers and friends".

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