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The first match game of the season between first class clubs, was played yesterday after noon, by the

The play on both sides was excellent; that of the Masten, the catcher of the Putnam side, in particular

They play the Eagle Club, of Hoboken, on the 24th inst., at Carroll Park, and all who witness the game

The Putnams play a match game next week with the Atlantic Club, the champions of Long Island, and if

A challenge has been sent to the Clubs of New York and Hoboken to turn out six men to play a match against

He spoke of the Richard as "a favorite play" of his.

"It is typical: the most likely, conclusive of the Shakespeare plays."

Then Shakespeare was to palm the plays off as his own? Was that the idea?

Harned said: "The Plays are so great won't they stand alone for all time?"

Were the Shakespeare plays the best acting plays? W. said: "That's a superstition—an exaggeration."

arising out of a life of depression and enervation, as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

Have the old forces played their parts? Are the acts suitable to them closed?"

famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play

famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play

Bucke is referring to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's tragic play, published in 1808.

This manuscript contains notes about the characters and physical traits of three men: Bill Guess, Peter

In this particular manuscript, Whitman lists figures such as "Peter the Hermit" and "The Popes."

Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 10 April [1874]

Your Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 16 April [1874]

Never was there a darker, more treacherous, despicable, and selfish game than that played, in this business

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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

Catlin as a "precious collection" Painter George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894) was one of more than

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Price Elizabeth Lorang Janel Cayer Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 14 October [1868]

now to improve in walking—& then I shall begin to feel all right—(but am still very feeble & slow)—Peter

The play was "Our American Cousin."

I knew the play very well, & recollect asking Miss — at what point in it the tragedy occurred, but her

Lincoln laughed heartily at the comical situations & dialogue of the play, and paid close attention to

Miss — was leaning forward, she said, to catch some by-play that was going on at the back of the stage

shouted his cry of "Sic semper tyrannis" & run off the stage, she still thought it was part of the play

readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter

this occasion—here is a good buss to you dear son from your loving Father always— Walt Whitman to Peter

believe that is all this time, dear baby, Walt— with a kiss from your loving father— Walt Whitman to Peter

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 28 July [1871]

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 2 January [1874]

.) $14.85 due Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 22 April 1865

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 14 June [1872]

yesterday afternoon—Wilson Barrett sent over a carriage for me & I had just a good ride, & liked the play

He played the lead role in Clito, a new blank-verse drama set in ancient Greece, written by the English

Greece, written by the English dramatist Sydney Grundy (1848–1914) in collaboration with Barrett, who played

The truth is, Peter, that I am here at present times mainly in the midst of female women, some of them

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 18 October 1868

Attorney for Dakota Territory, asking that Peter Holt, late a private in the 13th infantry, and now a

Bucke has Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford letters from W. Saturday, October 25, 1890

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Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 29 August [1873?]

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 18 June [1872]

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, June 1883

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

O'Connor's Hamlet's Note-book (1886) argues for Bacon's authorship of Shakespeare's plays.

Donnelly's The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays (1888).

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

Shakespeare and Francis Bacon here, he is referencing the Baconian theory—the idea that Shakespeare's plays

Baconian theorist, who authored Hamlet's Note-book, in which he argued that Bacon had authored the play

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.

I should very much wish to know from you what stage play and what actor and actress you you remember

Which of Shakesperes Shakespeare's great plays do you find the most entertaing entertaining reading?

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

readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter

Peter Doyle has been with me. It is as pleasant and warm as summer here to-day.

Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

.; Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

appearance, which had been uttered several days previous, when Master Caleb gave his flock a holiday, for Peter

just as gleesome, commemorated the bestowal, that morning, of another holiday, for the hanging of Peter

of the stream, to see, reclining there in the sunshine, the shape of the now wan and pallid-faced Peter

with wild and ghastly visage, and with the phrenzied contortions of a madman in his worst paroxysm, Peter

Peter Brown, although he has quite a family of little children, finds time, now and then, to utter eloquent

A number of children were at play—some kind of a game which required that they should take each others

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Immense Caravanserais starting from all lands for several centuries, inspire by rapt men—Peter the Hermit

Popes, Bishops; Christ Peter the Hermit Walter the Pennyless Godefroi de Bouillon Richard Coeur de Lion

Saviour's tomb Columbus was its immaculate conception and a new world thus linked with old Palestine Peter

1 His earl ies t printed plays 1597 Romeo & Juliet Richard 3d & Richard 2d Chapman's trans. of Homer,

1596—his sone son Hamnet died, in the 12th year of his age. 1598 To this year, only five of his plays

"To be or not to be" is taken almost verbatim from Plato— —To the Iliad, every one of his best plays

—"What Pope says of some of the Plays of Shakespeare is probably true of all—that they were pieces of

His earliest printed plays

See Peter Adams, Bowery Boys: Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion (Westport, CT: Praeger

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 22 August 1870

Your old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 1 May [1874]

readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter

Peter Doyle has also come on from Washington, to spend a short time here & then return with me to Philadelphia

change—the weather here is very pleasant indeed—if I could only get around, I should be satisfied— I expect Peter

The term is taken from the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) by Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist

The term is taken from the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) by Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist

Jourdain, in the play of Racine, was surprised to learn from his erudite master in philosophy that for

The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme .

.; The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Orchestra, a popular touring ensemble conducted by the renowned conductor Theodore Thomas (1835–1905), played

"What Lurks Behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays?"