WorkWilliam Shakespeare

Lear

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Mentioned

Documented 1846

Essays

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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.

  • undatedKing LearAttested

    “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

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1846—

Browning’s Poems.

“Browning’s Poems.”
mentioned
“our grief wants the true tragic element which hallows it in the Antigone, the Lear, and even Schiller's "Mary Stuart," or "Wallenstein.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Browning’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 April 1846. · 1 April 1846