1781 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Friedrich Schiller arrested after the first performance of his play, The Robbers

[edit] New books

• Robert Bage - Mount Henneth
• Frances Brooke - The Siege of Sinopoe
• Henry Mackenzie - Julia de Roubignei

[edit] New drama

• Elizabeth Inchbald – Polygamy
• Friedrich Schiller - Die Räuber (The Robbers)

[edit] Poetry

• Philip Freneau - The British Prison-Ship

[edit] Non-fiction

• Edward Gibbon - Volumes II and III of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

[edit] Births

• January 26 - Achim von Arnim
• January 30 - Adelbert von Chamisso, poet
• November 6 - Lucy Aikin

[edit] Deaths

• February 15 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• April 4 - Henry Thrale, friend of Samuel Johnson and husband of Hester Thrale