"Comrades and Lovers," Character List

Characters in Order of Appearance

Whitman should be played by one actor throughout, as should Symonds. With the other actors playing several parts a total of nine male actors can perform this piece.

Act I

Walt Whitman

Speakers 1-4

Boy

Rufus Griswold

Bronson Alcott

Henry David Thoreau

John Addington Symonds

Fred Vaughan

Daniel Spencer

David Wilson

Horace Ostrander

Jerry Taylor

Mississippi captain

Thomas Sawyer

Lewis Brown

Douglass Fox

Alonzo Bush

Horace Traubel

Act II

Peter Doyle

Brawny young soldier

Edward Carpenter

Harry Stafford

Ed Cattell

Gavin Arthur George

Ted

Speakers 1-4

Dr. Gay Wilson Allen