“From Hamlet I turned to Timon and Lear... the misanthropy of the disappointed affections and wounded trust.”
WorkWilliam Shakespeare
King Lear
King Lear (c. 1606; First Folio 1623)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) · c. 1606; First Folio, 1623
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Documented 1846
Books • Manuscripts
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 →
Confirmed reading
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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“O Regan, Goneril, Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave you all. that way madness lies, let me shun that.”
Papers on Literature and Art
Same 'From Hamlet I turned to Timon and Lear' statement covers King Lear, plus quoted lines from the play.
When Fuller engaged with this work
1846—
Papers on Literature and Art
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“our grief wants the true tragic element which hallows it in the Antigone, the Lear, and even Schiller's "Mary Stuart," or "Wallenstein.”
Also reprinted in New-York Daily Tribune. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
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On R.H. Dana's Lecture
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“In the three evenings upon [Lear] there was but one suggestion new to me.”
Fuller, Margaret. "On R.H. Dana's Lecture." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 2, Folder: 85.