Jonathan Ned Katz: "Comrades and Lovers"

A theater piece about love between men in the life of Walt Whitman

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This theater piece s adapted from the words of Whitman, John Addington Symonds, and the others who appear in it, condensed from their letters, diaries, essays, interviews, and poems.

Act 1

1 Walt Whitman: "Love thoughts"

2 Rufus Griswold: "Once licentiousness"

3 Walt Whitman: "Through me"

4 Bronson Alcott: "With Henry David Thoreau"

5 Walt Whitman: "By silence"

6 John Addington Symonds: "Is it not strange?"

7 Walt Whitman: "Alone I had thought"

8 John Addington Symonds: "I am taking with me to London"

9 Fred Vaughan: "To form the acquaintance"

10 Walt Whitman: "Passing Stranger!"

11 Walt Whitman, Thomas Sawyer, Lewis K. Brown, Douglass Fox: "Began my visits"

12 John Addington Symonds: "When a man"

13 Peter Doyle: "Yes, I will talk of Walt"

14 Walt Whitman: "Publish my name"

Act II

1 Charles Warren Stoddard: "I am a stranger"

2 John Addington Symonds: "I fear"

3 Walt Whitman: "It is to the development"

4 Walt Whitman: "City of Orgies"

5 Edward Carpenter: "There are many"

6 Walt Whitman, Harry Stafford, Ed Cattell: "The hour, night"

7 Horace Traubel, "Whitman asked me"

8 John Addington Symonds: "In your conception of Comradeship"

9 Gavin Arthur, "In spite of his eighty years"

10 The New York Times, December 17, 1955

11 Peter Doyle, "I have Walt's raglan"

12 Walt Whitman, "No labor-saving machine"