1762 in literature

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The assassination of Peter III of Russia and the coronation of Catherine the Great.
Founding of the Sorbonne library.
Académie française produces new edition of its dictionary of the French language.
The Cock Lane Ghost.
Benjamin Victor's adaptation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona (with expanded roles for the clown Launce and his dog) is staged by David Garrick at Drury Lane, and runs for five nights. It is the earliest known performance of that Shakespearean play in any form.
Christoph Martin Wieland begins publishing his prose translations of 22 Shakespearean plays, their first translations into German (in 8 volumes, through 1766).

Corporate authorship - The North Briton (periodical)
George Campbell - A Dissertation on Miracles
Jacques Cazotte - Ollivier.
Denis Diderot - Éloge de Richardson
Henry Fielding - Works
Oliver Goldsmith:
- The Life of Richard Nash
- The Mystery Revealed (on the Cock Lane Ghost)
Paisiy Hilendarski - Slavonic-Bulgarian History
Henry Home - Elements of Criticism
Richard Hurd - Letters on Chivalry and Romance
John Langhorne - Letters on Religious Retirement, Melancholy and Enthusiasm
Robert Lowth - A Short Introduction to English Grammar
Joseph Priestley - A Course of Lectures on the Theory of Language, and Universal Grammar
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
Horace Walpole - Anecdotes of Painting in England, volume 1