1741 in literature

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The year 1741 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 Newly published drama
4 Plays
5 Births
6 Deaths

[edit] Events

David Garrick packs theatres with his performance as Shakespeare's Richard III.
The American Magazine begins publication by Andrew Bedford.

[edit] New books

Anonymous - The Life of Pamela (pirate edition of Richardson's Pamela)
- - Pamela Censured
Thomas Betterton - The History of the English Stage, from the Restauration to the Present
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer (revives interest in Chaucer's tales)
Stephen Duck - Every Man in his Own Way
Henry Fielding (as "Mr. Conny Keyber") - An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
Thomas Francklin - Of the Nature of the Gods
Eliza Haywood - Anti-Pamela
Ludvig Holberg - Niels Klim's Underground Travels
David Hume - Essays Moral and Political
John Kelly - Pamela's Conduct in High Life (pirate continuation of Pamela)
Robert Craggs Nugent - An Ode to Mankind
Alexander Pope with John Gay and John Arbuthnot - Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
Charles Povey - The Virgin in Eden (prose fiction)
Samuel Richardson - Letters Written to and for Particular Friends (aka "Familiar Letters")
- - Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded vols. iii - iv
William Shenstone - The Judgment of Hercules
Jonathan Swift - Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence (pirate publication by Edmund Curll, for which he was sued by Pope)
- - Some Free Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs
Isaac Watts - The Improvement of the Mind
Leonard Welsted - The Summum Bonum
John and Charles Wesley - A Collection of Psalms and Hymns
George Whitefield - A Letter to the Reverend John Wesley
Edward Young - Poetical Works of the Reverend Edward Young
Hristofor Zhefarovich - Stemmatographia

[edit] Newly published drama

Anonymous - Pamela; or, Virtue Triumphant
Robert Dodsley - The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (adapted from the anonymous Elizabethan play)
David Garrick - The Lying Valet
John Kelly - The Levee