1796 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes his periodical The Watchman
- William Henry Ireland publishes his Shakespearean forgeries in his Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare. Ireland's forged Shakespearean play, Vortigern and Rowena, is produced at Drury Lane and laughed off the stage. Amid a growing controversy, Edmund Malone exposes the forgeries in his Inquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments. Ireland recants and confesses his fraud in An Authentic Account of the Shakespearean Manuscripts.
[edit] New books
- Robert Bage - Hermsprong or Man as he is not
- Elizabeth Bonhôte - Bungay Castle
- Edmund Burke - A Letter to a Noble Lord
- Fanny Burney - Camilla
- Denis Diderot - Jacques le fataliste et son maître
- Edward Gibbon - Memoirs of My Life and Writings
- Mary Hays - Memoirs of Emma Courtney
- Matthew Lewis - The Monk
- Jane Purbeck - Matilda and Elizabeth
- Regina Maria Roche - The Children of the Abbey: a Tale
- Mary Wollstonecraft - Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
[edit] New drama
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Egmont
- Mary Darby Robinson - The Sicilian Lover
[edit] Births
- January 4 - Henry George Bohn, publisher
- September 19 - Hartley Coleridge
- July 15 - Thomas Bulfinch, American author
[edit] Deaths
- February 17 - James Macpherson, poet
- May 6 - Adolf Freiherr Knigge, writer on etiquette
- July 21 - Robert Burns
- October 7 - Thomas Reid, philosopher
