1786 in literature
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[edit] Events
- The Story of the Learned Pig (anonymous) is one of the first books to cast doubt on the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays.
[edit] New books
- William Thomas Beckford - Vathek
- James Boswell - Dorado, a Spanish Tale (published anonymously)
- The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, translated from the German by G. A. Bürger
- Harriet Lee - The Errors of Innocence
[edit] New drama
- John Burgoyne - The Heiress
- Elizabeth Inchbald – The Widow’s Vow
[edit] Poetry
- Robert Burns - Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
[edit] Non-fiction
- Hester Thrale - Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson
