1796 in literature
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Events
- Samuel Ireland publishes a collection of Shakespearean forgeries in his Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare (dated this year but actually produced on 24 December 1795). Edmond Malone exposes them in his An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments on 31 March, and the forged 'Shakespearean' play, Vortigern and Rowena, is able to sustain just a single performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 2 April. Ireland's son, William Henry, confesses to the fraud in An Authentic Account of the Shakespearean Manuscripts.
- February 29 - The Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal is established as the Royal Public Library of the Court in Lisbon.
- March 1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge launches his periodical The Watchman; it lasts for only ten issues.
- September 22 - Mary Lamb commits matricide.[1]
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
- Susannah Willard Johnson - A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson
New drama
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Egmont
- Richard Cumberland - Don Pedro
- Mary Darby Robinson - The Sicilian Lover
New poetry
Main article: 1796 in poetry
Births
- January 4 - Henry George Bohn, publisher (died 1884)
- September 19 - Hartley Coleridge, poet, biographer, essayist, and eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (died 1849)
- July 15 - Thomas Bulfinch, American author best known for Bulfinch's Mythology (died 1867)
Deaths
- January 13 - John Anderson, natural philosopher and scientist (born 1726)
- February 17 - James Macpherson, poet (born 1736)
- May 6 - Adolf Freiherr Knigge, German writer on etiquette (born 1752)
- July 21 - Robert Burns, poet (born 1759)
- October 7 - Thomas Reid, philosopher (born 1710)
References
- ↑ Hitchcock, Susan Tyler (2005). Mad Mary Lamb. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Co. pp. 15–17. ISBN 0-393-05741-0.
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