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"Be seated, I will sit here where I can see the children at play beneath the green leaves," and the poet

office—he was in St Louis a week—with one of the dramatic Companies  I saw him often—did'nt go to the play

"What Lurks Behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays?"

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

"What Lurks Behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays?"

"What Lurks Behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays?" appeared in The Critic on September 27.

knowing I do)—I am writing for the magazine market—or rather have written—a reminiscence of the actors & plays

obliged by your kind offer of the little M.S. manuscript on "What lurks behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays

Suppose, however, he undertook to play the part in a cutaway coat, a plug hat, corduroy trowsers, and

for you if you want it your telegram recd recieved yesterday too late. for the paper Walt Whitman to Peter

I have written plays, comedy & tragedy, allegory, satire and biting political pieces, a few of them printed

Yet for its better advancement I have to play the part of a genteel citizen,—part repugnant!

to the theatre last week, & enjoyed it, "Francesca da Rimini"—lots of love-making & hugging in the play

spied me in front, & sent around to ask me to come behind the scenes, which I did at the end of the play

Commonplace Book on January 30: "B[arrett] sent for me behind the stage & I went at the close of the play

fol.00003xxx.00465S.b.89What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

[manuscript], ca. 1884What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

leaveshandwritten; A late-stage manuscript of Whitman's essay What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays

What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

Yes, unhesitatingly; the plays of the great poet are not only the concentration of all that lambently

played in the best fanciesof those times — not only the gathering sunset ofthe stirringdays of feudalism

corner of the room where there was a group ofyoung children, with whom he talked and laughed and played

I play Alphonso neither togenius nor to God.

, and interpret itas a law of Nature interpretsthe complex play of factswhich proceeds Iroiuit.

Whitman referred to Mario in Specimen Days & Collect, published in 1882-1883, in the passages entitled Plays

Camden N J Dec 9 '83 A young workingman & engineer, Edward Doyle, (brother of my dear friend Peter D.

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

religion, and the democratic adjustments, all these swarms of poems, literary magazines, dramatic plays

He could no more have written the idylls of the King , or a play of Shakespeare than he could have written

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, June 1883

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

The quote is from Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer's adaptation of the ancient Greek play "Heauton

You play a prominent part in this picture—seated at table bending over a nosegay of flowers, poetizing

me over 10 years ago) boxed up & stored with other traps in Washington at the house of old Mr Nash, Peter

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

me over the gaps of the bridge, through impediments, safely aboard"), and would enjoy the stir and play

activity, nor "that other shape of personality dearer far to the artist-sense (which likes the strongest play

Look at this sturdy child of Nature playing with his mother: Hanging clothes on a rail near by, keeping

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

this it is a very pleasant quiet Sunday—as I sit here by my open window, a lady nearly opposite is playing

are over home—I wish I was there with you all— —As I finish my letter a lady opposite is singing & playing

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

Wednesday afternoon I played the delightful game of lawn-tennis with them and their friends & the following

day I was asked to go and play tennis at the Rectory two miles off.

Love's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my Love's like a melodie That's sweetly played

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

is a rational animal, and not like the beasts, which have no sense; and all effort on his part to play

fight between Deity on one side and somebody else on the other—not Milton, not even Shakespeare's plays

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

here in London very good-naturedly volunteered to stand to me for a picture of Consuelo & Hayden playing

Things in the asylum is quite lively now the Dances and Plays is in full blast now, And they make the

offers extraordinary facilities for translation especially poetic, from foreign tongues, e.g. a Greek play

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

a passage remarkable for its nobility: "With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play Marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

should be observed toward President Arthur, who has in some respects, the most perplexing part to play

everything—the being with Norah (who is like one of my own) & the dearest jolliest little man digging & playing

But we must recognise the situation as practical men, and must not play into their hands, but must simply

Around the idea of thee the war revolving, With all its angry and vehement play of causes, (With vast

again, Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays

hair rumpled over and blind- ing blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done, I will play

or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is play

- ing playing within me.

leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, 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

I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute

up here, soul, soul, Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing

march'd forth to inter- cept intercept the enemy, They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays