WorkWilliam Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Inferred

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) · First Folio, 1623; numerous subsequent editions

InferredRichard Fuller states that Margaret placed her own 'fine edition' of Shakespeare in his hands 'as tenant-in-common,' a copy presented to her by 'her Providence scholars.'

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Documented 1846

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Books

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

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
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Papers on Literature and Art

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“That Mrs.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Cataloged as the Plays collectively since Fuller invokes multiple works and the general benchmark of Shakespearean drama throughout.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Recollections of Richard F. Fuller

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“Thus she did with Shakspeare, a fine edition which her Providence scholars had presented to her, and Wordsworth, made precious by her marks of emphatic approbation. These books I now have.”

Fuller, Richard Frederick. Recollections of Richard F. Fuller. Boston: privately printed, 1936.

Inferred Richard Fuller states that Margaret placed her own 'fine edition' of Shakespeare in his hands 'as tenant-in-common,' a copy presented to her by 'her Providence scholars.'