WorkWilliam Shakespeare

Cymbeline

Cymbeline (c. 1609?10; First Folio, 1623), Inferred

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) · c. 1609?10; First Folio, 1623

InferredFuller names 'Shakspeare's Cloten' explicitly. Cloten is the boorish, dense, and vulgar stepson of Cymbeline in Shakespeare's late romance Cymbeline.

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Documented 1843–1845

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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 York2records

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“After spying about some time, he found it could only be the sunset, and looking, too, a moment, he said approvingly “that sun looks well enough”: a speech worthy of Shakspeare's Cloten, or the infant Mercury, up to everything from the cradle, as you please to take it.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller names 'Shakspeare's Cloten' explicitly. Cloten is the boorish, dense, and vulgar stepson of Cymbeline in Shakespeare's late romance Cymbeline.

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p41

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“it is conjugal love, and no other, making it unlike the same relation, as seen in Cymbeline, or Othello”

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

Inferred Cymbeline mentioned by name in passing; Othello mentioned by name in passing. Cymbeline and Othello named explicitly as comparisons to the Portia-Brutus relationship.