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We are going tonight to a children's play (dramatic opera) down at town hall—tickets given me by our

dramatic critic on Transcript=Jenks —I'll say a word abt the play.

Last night I saw Bronson Howard's play—Henrietta—Robson & Crane chief actors.

A very useful play—satire on Wall Street.

A Reminiscence of New York Plays and Acting Fifty Years Ago," appeared in November Boughs (1888), along

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

Peter Pangloss was a character in the play The Heir at Law (1797) by George Colman (the Younger), and

Both roles were played by the nineteenth-century actor Joseph Jefferson.

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

the bench, has been rather more obscure in his history than accords with the prominent part he once played

description—yet as my series of sketches would be incomplete if it did not include a man who has played

Yet he found time in early youth to mingle in the toilsome “play” of the firemen.

where his natural abilities, sharpened as they have been by the struggles of partisanship, have full play

the shadow of the mantle of his late distinguished progenitor and namesake falling upon him, have played

and as he has in all probability a long career yet to run, I look forward with confidence to his playing

In this sphere his long practical acquaintance with the laws of mechanics has been brought into play;

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

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

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

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

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

But I, for my part—we—must not play the game with that end in view.

He often plays with his penknife, opening and shutting as he talks.

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

I doubt whether I would ever care for the play." Better today.

Tom, don't play with fire."

Ed has a violin which he plays round the house.

W. told Ed: "Play your violin: play it as much as you choose: I like it: when I am tired I will tell

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

O'Connor, is veritably a Peter the Hermit, a Luther."

—the play of his imagination quite fine.

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.

They had played Raff's "Lenore" Symphony among other things.Evening, 8:00.

The whole subject, Beethoven, and the playing absolutely without note.

But the average pianist plays by sight only, and has no ears.

He listened intently while Anna played a fine air (and played it finely) on the piano.

and played around the chair.

Siddons' book about actors, plays?

Hackett did not play it often.

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

Scovel once told me of an old play she had heard of or seen—a play in which much hangs upon the saying

It has its part to play in the drama.

and Paula Ingle, and Peter Bishop.

It was a brilliant play of wit and eloquence.

It is a great thing to let life play to such measure—spontaneity."

Lusty fire in stove; the flickering flame playing on objects all over the room.

and then, "I have seen the play often; have even seen Booth in it.

Judith Grace Bassat, Peter Bishop, Cynthia Hill, Kevin Kelleher, Leigh Morfit, Peter and Paula Ingle,

"He did not play Macbeth much.

He rather affected the plays which involved intellect—the more subtle by-playings—Iago-ish characters

And again, "We are players in a play: this is all part of the play, to be welcomed along with the rest

Peter relentless, "We cannot help that."

Much else went on—word after word—and theme playing with theme.

"It makes a good play. Did you know that, Horace? A capital play—with fire and feeling—oh!

It is a sad game to play." Then asked, "You know what hetchel is?

Bannan in Warrie's room playing cribbage.

The spirit has played me against it." Yet asked, "What news with you?

Branch prefers a wider field for the play of woman’s affections.

When one notes the importance that oratory played in Whitman's mind and writing, the presence of such

the poem later titled "I Sing the Body Electric": "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

—the vocal performer to make far more of his song, or solo part, by by-play, attitudes, expressions,

edition of The bugle calls in the ballroom—the dancers gentlemen lead out go for their partners—the playing

The fingers of the pianist playing lightly and rapidly over the keys. illustration a man placing his

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

wander'd alone, bare- headed bare-headed , barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play

tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play

tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play

force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage; (Have the old forces, the old wars, played

force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage, (Have the old forces, the old wars, played

force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage, (Have the old forces, the old wars, played

races; I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage; (Have the old forces played

deficient in loveableness lovableness , as to not be pleased with the spectacle of little children at play

Celebration of children at play was a relatively new concept used by upper-middle class families who

Whitman references children at play to point to a particular type of family one would see at a park,

Celebration of children at play was a relatively new concept used by upper-middle class families who

Whitman references children at play to point to a particular type of family one would see at a park,

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

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.