WorkJames Sheridan Knowles

Virginius

Virginius: A Tragedy in Five Acts

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Documented 1820–1846

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Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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On John Vandenhoff's Acting

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“The affected idiocy of Brutus, the real insanity of Virginius he acted with considerable talent, the latter best, as was to be expected.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On John Vandenhoff's Acting." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 123.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

“it is certainly less painful, on the whole, to see a play of Knowles's than one of Shakspeare's [...] Virginius, the Hunchback, Metamora, are plays quite good enough for the stage at present”

The same sentence also names The Hunchback. Counted as one engagement.

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.