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Richard III

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) · c. 1592; First Folio 1623

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Letter to Henry Colman

p60

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“These are great times, my dear Mr Coleman. No piping times, but good loud swell of the trumpet”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller writes "No piping times, but good loud swell of the trumpet," alluding to Shakespeare's Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1, where Richard laments the end of war with the phrase "no more the piping times of peace." Fuller inverts the Shakespearean sense: for her, these are emphatically not peaceful times but times of revolution and trumpets.

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p239

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“in particular, Richard the Third,—about which we had actually a fight.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.