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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

1584 results

Annie Nathan Meyer to Walt Whitman, 12 January 1891

  • Date: January 12, 1891
  • Creator(s): Annie Nathan Meyer
Annotations Text:

Brander Matthews (1852–1929) was a prolific American writer and critic who wrote novels, plays, short

Whitman's November

  • Date: 27 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Press About six weeks ago the children on Mickle street, below Fifth street, in Camden, were asked to play

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 7 August 1888

  • Date: August 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 July 1888

  • Date: July 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 25 July 1888

  • Date: July 25, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1888

  • Date: July 12, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 July 1888

  • Date: July 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 June 1888

  • Date: June 24, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

background on Harned's trip to the Republican National Convention in Chicago and the political issues at play

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 June 1888

  • Date: June 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

Dear Walt Whitman, These last days have been so crowded with work & play, that there has been no fair

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 May 1888

  • Date: May 24, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1888

  • Date: May 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Annotations Text:

He played numerous parts during his career, including taking on a number of Shakespearean roles, sometimes

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 16 May 1888

  • Date: May 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 7 May 1888

  • Date: May 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 22 April 1888

  • Date: April 22, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

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

A very useful play—satire on Wall Street.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 14 April 1888

  • Date: April 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William D. O'Connor
Text:

Donnelly has made lately a remarkable discovery—that the two folio editions of the play following the

Annotations Text:

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

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

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 14 March 1888

  • Date: March 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
Annotations Text:

See Jonathan Mitchel Sewall (1748–1808), Epilogue to Joseph Addison's 1713 play Cato, written for a 1778

production of the play in Portsmouth, New Hampshire: "No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, / But

Sophia Williams to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1888

  • Date: February 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sophia Williams
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman's Advice to the State Scholars

  • Date: February 1888
  • Creator(s): Cessator
Text:

characters are individualistic; they let out what they have in them; they give themselves full sweep and play

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 6 January 1888

  • Date: January 6, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dressed as Portia, when a Shakespeare masquerade (in which everyone took some part from the plays) was

Annotations Text:

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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 4 January 1888

  • Date: January 4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

Dressed as Portia, when a Shakespeare masquerade (in which everyone took some part from the plays) was

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 3 January 1888

  • Date: January 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

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

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Age 48— 51. new country — Description of Philadelphia— Edward The Carpenter — Walt Whitman at the play

Round the Priory we findart and nature playing into each other's hands.

A fondness for music was soon to show itself;an announcement ,that her mistress would play asonata of

Tennyson is all that he said. having men- tioned that they had just come over from Peters- field, and

His play ought to be worth reading and seeing.

A Chat with the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: December 1887
  • Creator(s): Cyrus Field Willard
Text:

stores, Customs, costumes, churches, theatres, looks And lingoes all are vanished, are Gone, are played

Knock Out the resonant, brassy Notes, and prattle along like A lad at play, while ever and Anon sweet

Walt Whitman to Mr. and Mrs. Harned, 7 November [1887?]

  • Date: November 7, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

Bucke, his intimate friend and truly able biographer, who plays Boswell to Whitman's Johnson, reports

Peter Bayne. Among Whitman's personal friends were Bryant and Longfellow.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, and Richard Maurice Bucke, 30 August 1887

  • Date: August 30, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Davidson's review of Ignatius Donnelly's The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

, which argued that Shakespeare's plays had been written by Francis Bacon.

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 13 June [1887]

  • Date: June 13, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

thing is so beautiful & peaceful in the nearly declined but dazzling sun—The little children are playing

mostly strawberries) I see glimpses of a fine sunset in the west & the boys out in Mickle Street are playing

Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 3 May 1887

  • Date: May 3, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

bird is singing—the cars are puffing & rattling, & the children of the neighborhood are all outdoors playing—So

An Old Poet's Reception

  • Date: 15 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He was born in Havana, where his father used to play the fiddle for home amusement.

The lad began playing when he was but little taller than his father's fiddle.

Walt was mightily pleased with the music, and the Chevalier played some more. Meantime, W. H.

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, [13 April 1887]

  • Date: [April 13, 1887]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Walt's favorite brother, Jeff played the piano and had a lively sense of humor.

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 6 March 1887

  • Date: March 6, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Alma Calder Johnston, 6 March 1887

  • Date: March 6, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Jessie Louisa Whitman, 6 March [1887]

  • Date: March 6, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Excerpt from Chapter 19 of Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist
Text:

; for unless it be the faithful servant in As You Like It, there is not a single character, in his plays

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 9 November 1886

  • Date: November 9, 1886
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

such an one should be clothed in pretty dress has been my first consideration— & cudos necessarily plays

William Douglas O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 17 August 1886

  • Date: August 17, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Annotations Text:

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

Talks with Noted Men

  • Date: 12 June 1886
  • Creator(s): W. H. B.
Text:

Back of that, in still earlier and lower forms of life, sensation or consciousness played its part in

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 26 May 1886

  • Date: May 26, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Hamlet's Note-book (1886), which argued that Sir Francis Bacon had written the plays attributed to Shakespeare

Smith & Starr to Walt Whitman, 12 April 1886

  • Date: April 12, 1886
  • Creator(s): Smith & Starr
Annotations Text:

. ☞ The best Companies played here last season to good business.

Moses A. Walsh to Walt Whitman, 9 April 1886

  • Date: April 9, 1886
  • Creator(s): Moses A. Walsh
Text:

After supper talk or play cards until bed time.

Whitman for the Drawing Room

  • Date: April 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

This quotation is from a collection of conversations between Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann.

Annotations Text:

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 23 January 1886
  • Creator(s): George Johnston | Quilp [George Johnston?]
Text:

doing so irradiated it with an unearthly glory, so bright and genial was the good-natured smile that played

Men and Things

  • Date: 21 October 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The famous white hat sat on the top of his thick snowy hair, and the flickering gaslights played in unromantic

William Roscoe Thayer to Walt Whitman, 12 October 1885

  • Date: October 12, 1885
  • Creator(s): William Roscoe Thayer
Text:

in Philadelphia for the beneficient effects wrought by crisp air, blue skies, endlessly fascinating play

Edward S. Mawson to Walt Whitman, 17 August 1885

  • Date: August 17, 1885
  • Creator(s): Edward S. Mawson
Text:

rather pretty house for those times, built I think by Flynn of the old Bowery Theater —I think he played

the "Iron Chest" both pieces besides all you name I saw him in—at this representation I speak of—he played

— a very good singer I believe for she was before my time—but a very bad immoral woman—they were playing

theater goer in my time—I am getting a little in the "sere and yellow leaf" now—but I still enjoy the play

Annotations Text:

He introduced many famous British actors to New York and with his focus on spectacle, Price played a

William Macready (1793–1873) was a British stage actor, who played Shakespearean roles, including Richard

While the duel apparently never took place, Webb continuted to editorialize against the couple and played

Whitman on Grant

  • Date: 26 July 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

yesterday and turned into the unpretentious thoroughfare called Mickle Street, a freckle faced urchin playing

soldier who traversed camp and field as the conquering head of the army while the Camden poet was playing

sonnet I wrote originally for Harper's: " As one by one withdraw the lofty actors From that great play

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 20 July 1885

  • Date: July 20, 1885
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Annotations Text:

Whitman's "old fashioned" furniture and a "canary" that "sang with all his might, and a kitten [that] played

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 July 1885

  • Date: July 7, 1885
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

issued in a different shape—quite square I should like to have it—so as to give your long lines full play

Walt Whitman and the Tennyson Visit

  • Date: 3 July 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

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

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 28 June 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

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

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