1784 in literature
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The year 1784 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.
Events
- April 27 - First public performance of Pierre Beaumarchais' comedy The Marriage of Figaro as La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris. It runs for 68 consecutive performances, earning higher box-office receipts than any other French play of the century.[1] It is translated into English by Thomas Holcroft[2] and, under the title The Follies of a Day, or The Marriage of Figaro is produced at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London by the end of the year.
- Gottlieb Jakob Planck becomes professor of theology at Göttingen.
New books
- Anonymous - Dangerous Connections (transl. of Les liaisons dangereuses)
- Robert Bage - Barham Downs
- Eliza Bromley - Laura and Augustus: an Authentic Story
- William Combe - Original Love-letters[3]
- William Godwin
- Damon and Delia
- Italian Letters
- Thomas Holcroft - Tales of the Castle
New drama
- Hannah Cowley
- A Bold Stroke for a Husband
- More Ways Than One
- Richard Cumberland
- Thomas Holcroft - The Follies of the Day (translation of Pierre Beaumarchais' Le Mariage de Figaro)
- Elizabeth Inchbald - Mogul Tale
- Friedrich Schiller - Intrigue and Love (Kabale und Liebe)
Poetry
Main article: 1784 in poetry
- Anonymous - Rolliad
- Mary Alcock - The Air Balloon
- Richard Jago - Poems
- Anna Seward - Louisa
- Charlotte Turner Smith - Elegaic Sonnets
- Helen Maria Williams - Peru
Non-fiction
- Thomas Astle - The Origin and Progress of Writing
- George Berkeley - Works
- Edmund Burke - Speech on the East India Bill
- Thomas Chatterton - Supplement to the Miscellanies
- James Cook - A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
- George Bubb Dodington - Diary
- William Godwin - Sketches of History
- Samuel Horsley - Letters from the Archdeacon of St. Albans
- Immanuel Kant - What is Enlightenment?
- William Mitford - The History of Greece
- Antoine de Rivarol - Sur l'universalité de la langue française
- Emanuel Swedenborg - A Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Arcana by Way of Representation and Correspondences (published, written in 1741).
- Arthur Young - Annals of Agriculture
Births
- January 31 - Bernard Barton, English Quaker poet (died 1849)
- May 18 - William Tennant, Scottish poet (died 1848)
- October 19 - Leigh Hunt, English critic, essayist, poet (died 1859)
- November 17 - Julia Nyberg, née Svärdström, Swedish poet (died 1854)
Deaths
- January 30 - John Holt, American publisher (born 1721)
- April 24 - Franciszek Bohomolec, Polish Enlightenment dramatist, linguist, and theatrical reformer (born 1720)
- July 31 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher, art critic, and writer (born 1713)
- December 13 - Samuel Johnson, English poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer (born 1709)
- December 25 - Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (born 1716)
- Date unknown - Le Quy Don, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (born 1726)[4]
References
- ↑ Wood, John, ed. (1964). The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics. OCLC 58897211.
- ↑ Coward, David, ed. (2003). The Figaro Trilogy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192804138.
- ↑ Books and Writers: William Combe. Accessed 12 February 2013
- ↑ Pelley, Patricia M. (2002). Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past. p. 125.
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