WorkFriedrich Schiller

Don Carlos

Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien [Don Carlos, Prince of Spain], 1787) Inferred

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) · Mannheim: C.F. Schwan und M. Götz, 1787

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Documented 1834–1841

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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

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1836Don CarlosAttested
“With more advanced pupils I read, in twenty-four weeks, Schiller's Don Carlos, Artists, and Song of the Bell, besides giving a sort of general lecture on Schiller”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]; twenty-four weeks
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re201 (Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe, p.62-63; tier C; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit first-person statement 'I read...Schiller's Don Carlos' with specific timeframe (twenty-four weeks).

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

p2–p3

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“more various, less vehement than Carlos”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Character 'Carlos' named — Carlos is the protagonist of Schiller's Don Carlos (1787), a character Fuller explicitly contrasts with her proposed Gustavus. Fuller names 'Carlos' as a character point of comparison ('more various, less vehement than Carlos').

1837—

Letter to Unknown

p278

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“With more advanced pupils I read, in twenty-four weeks, Schiller's Don Carlos, Artists, and Song of the Bell, besides giving a sort of general lecture on Schiller”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1841—

The Dial

“Goethe” · Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1841

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“Schiller's great command is, 'Keep true to the dream of thy youth.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p29

Inferred Fuller attributes this maxim to Schiller ("Schiller's great command"). The title is inferred to be Don Carlos.

Fuller attributes this maxim to Schiller ("Schiller's great command").

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Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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On Love

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“as Schiller says that he only loves who loves without hope”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Love." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 121.

Fuller attributes the sentiment explicitly to Schiller: 'as Schiller says that he only loves who loves without hope.' The source is Schiller's Don Carlos, Act II, scene viii, lines 1893–94: 'Er liebt allein, / Wer ohne Hoffnung liebt' ('He alone loves / who loves without hope')..' Fuller knew Don Carlos well — she taught it to her advanced German pupils (documented in L-2, Vol. VI) and named Max Piccolomini (from the Wallenstein trilogy) as a supreme character type.