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had written me that Bob was wrong about Bacon: "take my word for it, Shakespeare never wrote those plays

Then as to the plays, "Don't be too sure, Doctor—don't be too sure!

early days, Julius was always the name and there was a hilarious common joy and wit about the whole by-play

and play of the men which attracted me."

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.

Then spoke tenderly of Peter Doyle. "I wonder where he is now? He must have got another lay.

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

Gleams from the electric light out at the corner would play on his beard occasionally.

You will find his spirit always right—that he's in earnest—that he is not playing his life away."

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.

likely Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), an American stage actress who also lived in Europe and could play

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

likely Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), an American stage actress who also lived in Europe and could play

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 21–23 June 1871

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 23 February 1872

Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 6 February [1874]

hadn't the heart to turn 'em out—God help the homeless & moneyless this weather— Walt Walt Whitman to Peter

Nash, & to all inquiring friends Your old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 3 December [1874]

Good bye for this time dear boy— Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 12–13 March [1874]

Peter’s River way to the Missouri, every “extra claim” is taken up.

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

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

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 1: 93.

For more on financial bubbles, see: Peter M.

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

Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and The First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 (New York: Peter

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

i have just got your letter i write to say sis is much better she has been down stairs to day and plays

Buffalo he is very much attached to George he said when the Captain was sick he was A great mind to play

Sadakichi (ca. 1867–1944) Like the character he played in the 1924 film The Thief of Bagdad, Whitman

Sadakichi Hartmann played court magician to successive bohemian circles.

The Play-Ground

Once he mentioned Peter Doyle. "Where are you Pete? Oh!

should like to have my name written in each book by you (unless you object).I suppose you have seen Peter

that you have not so far forgotten my article as to think my meaning was that attributed to me by Peter

barrister friend of mine, O'Grady, which appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine the same month in which Peter

After the exile's turkey & plum pudding—we had to do without the pumpkin pie of course—we gave a play

The play was really very funny, especially as it was a take off on some of our friends, whom Mariechen

We half expected, as the play went on that the socialists, politicians, & aesthetics in the audience

Plays and Operas too

What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Historical Plays?

Whitman saw in New York in the 1850s, and who Whitman mentions in the section of Specimen Days entitled Plays

The poem serves as a summation of Whitman's career and poses a tableau wherein the light and dark playing

1860), "Waves" receives little critical attention, but it chronicles a moment in the poet's life and plays

Burleigh played piano. W. very ready. Greeting everybody gaily. Often with inquiries.

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

aristocracy: they are in fact not as nearly in touch with the spirit of our modern democracy as the plays

Do you find such things in the Shakespeare plays?

I do not—no, nothing of the kind: on the contrary everything possible is done in the Shakespeare plays

See also Whitman's description of "youngsters playing 'base,' a certain game of ball," in an article

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 477. the same may be said of cricket—and, in short, of all games

Boys should be encouraged to play the game.

In country places it is often played with flat stones, or with horse-shoes.

Most of our American cities have grounds where it is regularly played.

See also Whitman's description of "youngsters playing 'base,' a certain game of ball," in an article

Sir: Before pronouncing on the petition of Peter Targarona "for pardon, & remission of forfeiture," the

Territorial authorities is called to the case of Dobbins, vs . the Commissioners of Erie County, 16 Peters

When he heard I was going out to see Peter Montgomerie tonight, he would have me take papers—putting

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

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

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

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, [23 (?) October 1868]

Nash, Wash Milburn, & the RR boys— Your old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 10 July [1874]

—love to my darling son— Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 30 April [1875]

every day, I should get well—good bye for this week, my loving son— from your old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter

him a visit this fall—& now good bye for this time, my own loving boy— Your Old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 31 October [1873]

Nonetheless, in a letter to Peter Doyle remarking on the commencement, Whitman seemed to feel his poem

three letters to you last week, & papers—I knew that policeman Doyle that was shot dead here—he was Peter

Bemoaning lover problems, Whitman in 1870 compared Vaughan with Peter Doyle, admonishing himself: "Remember

The Journal gives several anecdotes relative to the play of some first-rate performers.

accustomed to take one pocket to his opponent's five; and, to convey a notion of his experience, he has played

one individual alone fifty thousand games of this kind; that is to say, estimating four games to be played

Outside, the sky perfectly clear & cloudless, the fountain playing, the trees across the open space,

—Evening spent in the house—chiefly in learning & playing "Pedro" with Willie & his friends.

Then fortunately it cleared up and we began driving & playing tennis, I went fishing with our vicar's

Mariechen and Frank Costelloe & I however have been reading one of Sophocles' plays to-gether.

Hugo's plays were also enjoying successful performances on the New York stage.

Whitman told Horace Traubel that "Hugo's immortal works were the dramas, the plays, the poems: least

November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) are important Whitman sources for the names of plays

Whitman called Cushman the greatest performer he had seen and admired her for playing any role that would

toward Forrest, however, and barely mentions Macready in his articles.Thomas Hamblin (1800–1853) played

Kemble (1809–1893) impressed Whitman in his early days; he claims to have seen her every night she played

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 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