1745 in literature

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The year 1745 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

The London theatres stage competing productions of Shakespeare's King John in response to the Jacobite invasion of Bonnie Prince Charlie. David Garrick's production of the original text at Drury Lane contrasts with Colley Cibber's adaptation Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John at Covent Garden. The rivalry anticipates "the Romeo and Juliet war" of five years later.
September 21 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock delivers a speech on epic poetry--Abschiedsrede über die epische Poesie, kultur- und literargeschichtlich erläutert-- to mark his leaving school.

Anonymous - Der höfliche Schüler (3rd ed)
Mark Akenside - Odes
John Brown - An Essay on Satire (in honor of the death of Alexander Pope)
John Gilbert Cooper - The Power of Harmony
Philip Doddridge - The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul
Henry Fielding
- A Serious Address to the People of Great Britain (on the Jacobite rebellion)
- The True Patriot (periodical)
Samuel Johnson
- Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth
- Proposals for Printing a New Edition of the Plays of William Shakespear
Samuel Madden - Boulter's Monument
Pierre de Marivaux - La Vie de Marianne (last published section of unfinished novel)
Moses Mendes - Henry and Blanche (trans. of Alain-René Lesage)
Glocester Ridley - Jovi Eleutherio
Thomas Scott - England's Danger and Duty
Jonathan Swift - Directions to Servants (unfinished, posth.)
William Thompson - Sickness

Thomas Broughton - Hercules (musical)
Colley Cibber - Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John (adapted from Shakespeare)
Robert Dodsley - Rex et Pontifex
Charles Jennens - Belshazzar (oratorio by Handel)
James Miller - The Picture (adapted from Molière's Sganarelle)
James Thomson - Tancred and Sigismunda

January 4 - Johann Jakob Griesbach, Biblical commentator (d. 1812)
February 2
- John Nichols (printer) (died 1826)
- Hannah More, religious writer and philanthropist (d. 1833)
February 20 - Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
September - Karl von Marinelli, actor and dramatist (d. 1803)
September 3 - Charles Victor de Bonstetten, Swiss liberal writer (d. 1832)
December 10 - Thomas Holcroft (died 1809)
date unknown - William Crowe, poet (d. 1829)
probable - Olaudah Equiano, African writer (died 1797)

July 11 - Pierre Desmaiseaux, biographer (born c.1673)
October 19 - Jonathan Swift, satirist (born 1667)
December 16 - Pierre Desfontaines, journalist and historian (b. 1685)
date unknown
- William Broome, poet and translator (b. 1689)
- Charles Coffey, dramatist and composer
- William Meston, poet (born c.1688)
- David Wilkins, orientalist (b. 1685)