WorkWilliam Shakespeare

Othello, the Moor of Venice

Othello, the Moor of Venice, Act V, scene ii (c. 1603; First Folio, 1623) Inferred

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) · c. 1603; First Folio, 1623

InferredFuller quotes from Othello's dying speech (Act V, scene ii, lines 347–48), paraphrasing the line "Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away / Richer than all his tribe," but substitutes "Ethiop" for "Indian" She applies the quotation to W. (Samuel Ward), characterizing him as one who cast aside Jane Tuckerman's love, though she does not name Shakespeare or the play in her letter.

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Documented 1839

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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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“His translation of Othello which I glanced at is good for a French man.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
First-person 'which I glanced at' is an explicit (if brief) statement of personally engaging with the specific translation.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Caroline Sturgis

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“he like the base Ethiop threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller quotes from Othello's dying speech (Act V, scene ii, lines 347–48), paraphrasing the line "Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away / Richer than all his tribe," but substitutes "Ethiop" for "Indian" She applies the quotation to W. (Samuel Ward), characterizing him as one who cast aside Jane Tuckerman's love, though she does not name Shakespeare or the play in her letter.