WorkWilliam Shakespeare

“Collected Works”

Collected Works (First Folio 1623) Inferred

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) · First Folio 1623

InferredNamed explicitly 'Shakspeare's range'; multiple plays and characters referenced: Macaria (n.b. = actually Greek, not Shakespeare), Imogen (Cymbeline), Desdemona (Othello), Rosalind (As You Like It), Cordelia (King Lear), Portia (Merchant of Venice), Isabella (Measure for Measure), Hamlet. Fuller explicitly names Shakspeare and discusses multiple plays.

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Documented 1845

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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. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p55-57

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“Shakspeare's range is also great but he has left out the heroic characters, such as the Macaria of Greece, the Britomart of Spenser...”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Named explicitly 'Shakspeare's range'; multiple plays and characters referenced: Macaria (n.b. = actually Greek, not Shakespeare), Imogen (Cymbeline), Desdemona (Othello), Rosalind (As You Like It), Cordelia (King Lear), Portia (Merchant of Venice), Isabella (Measure for Measure), Hamlet. Fuller explicitly names Shakspeare and discusses multiple plays.