WorkWilliam Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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Documented 1845–1846
Books • Essays
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
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.
“L. Have you been reading the play of late? A. Yes; hearing Macready, one or two points struck me that have not before, and I was inclined to try for my thousandth harvest from a new study of it.”
Papers on Literature and Art · hearing Macready; my thousandth harvest from a new study of it
First-person dialogue explicitly states 'Have you been reading the play of late?... I was inclined to try for my thousandth harvest from a new study of it,' a direct reading statement.
“The view of Hamlet was not unworthy, but this is a theme where we are as fastidious as we can be with regard to any production of human genius.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Mr. Hudson’s Lecture on Hamlet." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1845. · 19 February 1845
“Leave wringing of your hands; peace: sit you down: And let me wring your heart; for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Slave; Or Memoirs of Archy Moore . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 February 1845. · 4 February 1845
“like the phantom of Hamlet, he is here—he is there—he is gone.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Thomas Hood." New-York Daily Tribune, 9 August 1845. · 9 August 1845
“Think you that if Hamlet had held exactly the position besx fitted to his nature, had his thoughts become acts, without any violent willing of his own, had a great people paid life-long homage to his design, had he never detected the baseness of his mother, nor found cause to suspect the untimely fate of his father, had that " rose of May, the sweet Ophelia," bloomed safely at his side, and Horatio always been near, with his understanding mind and spotless hands, do you think all thi& could have preserved Hamlet from the astounding discovery that " A man may smile, and smile, and be a v.ifc',, That line, once written on his tables, woul quired the commentary of many years for its explanat”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p169
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p169; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“Is it the same thing to act the " Lady in Comus," and the Lady in " She stoops to Conquer," Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, and Sir Lucius O'Triggei ?”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p117
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p117; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
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“the introduction on the stage of the ghost in Hamlet (in his night-gown) as the old play book direction was.”
Fuller, Margaret. Art, Literature, and the Drama. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. New York: The Tribune Association, 1869. · p291