| Walt Whitman in 1854, age 35. This engraving by Samuel Hollyer, copied from a lost daguerreotype, appeared instead of Whitman's name on the front pages of the first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855).
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Dissertation Abstract: Dramatizing Whitman, by Kenn Pierson
Synopses:
- Chapter 1 - Dramatic Affinities: Whitman's Encounters with the
American Stage (Theories, Theatres, and Whitman's Poetry of "Performance")
- Chapter 2 - Dramatic Tendencies: The Response of Scholars to
Dramatic Elements in Leaves of Grass (Conflict, Action, Orality, and Physicality)
- Chapter 3 - Dramatic Renderings: The Application of Whitman's
Poetry to Stage and Screen ("Whitman Dramas" and the 1991 Leaves of Grass, Serpent's Tooth Theatre Production)
- Creative Component - Leaves of Grass (script)
- Appendix A - Chronology of Whitman Dramas, 1913 - 1996
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