Passing Performances : Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History

Whitman watched Booth preform at the Bowery Theater.

Clapp is described as Clare's occasional escort.

"Two major American literary critics, William Dean Howells and James Gibbons Huneker, published widely read eulogies. Whether it was merely coincidental or wheter the Shuberts intentionally sought to exploit Ibsen's death, it certainly brought attention to their new star" (132).