Jonathan Ned Katz: "Comrades and Lovers"

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

ENTRY UNDER CONSTRUCTION

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

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