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"
