1733 in literature
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The year 1733 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Antoine François Prévost (Abbé Prévost) arrives in London, where he will edit Le Pour et centre.
- Voltaire begins his relationship with Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet.
- Laurence Sterne enters Jesus College, Cambridge.
- Romeo and Juliet becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed in America.
- Charles Macklin makes his debut at Drury Lane Theatre in The Recruiting Officer.
[edit] New books
- Anonymous - Verses Address'd to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace (attrib. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu) (to Pope, below)
- George Berkeley - The Theory of Vision
- Samuel Bowden - Poetical Essays
- James Bramston - The Man of Taste (answer to Pope from 1732)
- John Durant Breval as "Joseph Gay" - Morality in Vice (part of Curll's continuing war with John Gay)
- Peter Browne - Things Supernatural and Divine Conceived by Analogy with things Natural and Human
- Mary Chandler - A Description of Bath
- Richard Graves - The Spiritual Quixote
- James Hammond - An Elegy to a Young Lady
- John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey - An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - Advice to a Lady
- Samuel Madden - Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (a roman á clef about George II)
- David Mallet - Of Verbal Criticism (to Pope)
- Thomas Newcomb - The Woman of Taste (reaction to Pope's Epistle of 1732)
- Alexander Pope
- "Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (3) "Society" (continuation of Essay on Man; the first two "epistles" were published in 1732 & the fourth in 1744)
- Of the Use of Riches: An Epistle to Lord Bathurst (aka the Epistle to Bathurst)
- The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
- The Impertinent
- Elizabeth Rowe - Letters Moral and Entertaining
- Jonathan Swift
- On Poetry, a Rhapsody (contained explicit attacks on George II, as well as many of the "dunces", resulting in arrests and prosecution.)
- The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift
- Voltaire - Letters Concerning the English Nation
- Isaac Watts - Philosophical Essays
[edit] New drama
- John Durant Breval - The Rape of Helen (printed 1737)
- Charles Coffey - The Boarding School (performed and published)
- Henry Fielding - The Miser (from Molière)
- John Gay - Achilles (opera) (posth.)
- Eliza Haywood - The Opera of Operas (adapt. of Fielding's Tom Thumb, with a pro-Walpole "reconciliation" scene) (opera)
- John Kelly - Timon in Love
- Edward Phillips
- The Livery Rake
- The Mock Lawyer
- The Stage Mutineers
- António José da Silva - Vida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Pança
- Lewis Theobald (ed.) - The Works of Shakespeare
[edit] Poetry
- John Banks - Poems on Several Occasions
- Thomas Fitzgerald - Poems
- Matthew Green as "Peter Drake" - The Grotto
- Mary Masters - Poems
- See also 1733 in poetry
[edit] Births
- January 12 - Antoine-Marin Lemierre, French poet and dramatist (died 1793)
- March 13 - Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (died 1804)
- March 18 - Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, critic and bookseller (died 1811)
- August 22 - Jean-François Ducis, dramatist (died 1816)
- September 5 - Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet (died 1813)
- date unknown - Robert Lloyd, poet and satirist (died 1764)
[edit] Deaths
- January 19 - Bernard de Mandeville, satirist and philosopher (born 1670)
- March 12 - Michel Le Quien, theologian and historian (born 1661)
- March 13 - Mademoiselle Aïssé, letter-writer (born c.1694)
- June 23 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, scholar (born 1672)
- August 16 - Matthew Tindal, deist writer (born 1657)
- date unknown
- John Dunton, writer and booksseller (born 1659)
- Bernard de Mandeville, philosopher (born 1670)
