1741 in literature
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The year 1741 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- January 29 - A memorial to William Shakespeare (d. 1616), designed by William Kent and sculpted by Peter Scheemakers, is erected in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.[1]
- February 13 - Andrew Bradford launches the American colonies' first periodical in Philadelphia, the American Magazine.[2]
- March 14 - K.K. Theater an der Burg (Imperial Court Theatre) in Vienna opened.
- October 19 - David Garrick makes his London stage debut, as Shakespeare's Richard III. His performance quickly packs theatres.[3] His professional debut was earlier in the year at Ipswich in Southerne's adaptation of Oroonoko.
- Irish-born actor Charles Macklin makes his London stage debut in the part of Shakespeare's Shylock at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, reversing the tradition of portraying the character as a comic villain.[4]
- Printer Robert Foulis sets up as a publisher in Edinburgh.
New books
- Anonymous
- The Life of Pamela (parody of Richardson's Pamela)
- Pamela Censured
- Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer (new edition revives interest in Chaucer's tales)
- Stephen Duck - Every Man in his Own Way
- Henry Fielding (as "Mr. Conny Keyber") - An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
- Eliza Haywood - The Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected
- Ludvig Holberg - Niels Klim's Underground Travels
- John Kelly - Pamela's Conduct in High Life (continuation of Pamela)
- Robert Craggs Nugent - An Ode to Mankind
- Alexander Pope with John Gay and John Arbuthnot - Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
- Charles Povey - The Virgin in Eden (prose fiction)
- Samuel Richardson
- Letters Written to and for Particular Friends (aka "Familiar Letters")
- Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded vols. iii - iv
- John and Charles Wesley - A Collection of Psalms and Hymns
- Hristofor Zhefarovich - Stemmatographia
- Real Academia Española - Ortografía
- Martín Sarmiento - Memorias para la historia de la poesía y poetas españoles
New drama
- Anonymous - Pamela; or, Virtue Triumphant
- Robert Dodsley - The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (adapted from the anonymous Elizabethan play)
- David Garrick - The Lying Valet
- William Hatchett - The Chinese Orphan: An Historical Tragedy (adapted from the 13th century Chinese play The Orphan of Zhao; unperformed)
- John Kelly - The Levee
- Voltaire - Mahomet (first performed)
Poetry
- William Shenstone - The Judgment of Hercules
- Edward Young - Poetical Works of the Reverend Edward Young
- Alonso Verdugo, third Earl of Torrepalma - Adonis
Non-fiction
- Thomas Betterton - The History of the English Stage, from the Restoration to the Present
- Thomas Francklin - Of the Nature of the Gods
- David Hume - Essays Moral and Political
- Emanuel Swedenborg - A Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Arcana by Way of Representation and Correspondences (written, published in 1784).
- Jonathan Swift
- Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence (pirate publication by Edmund Curll, for which he was sued by Pope)
- Some Free Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs
- Isaac Watts - The Improvement of the Mind
- Leonard Welsted - The Summum Bonum
- George Whitefield - A Letter to the Reverend John Wesley
Births
- January 16 – Hester Thrale (Mrs Piozzi), English diarist and arts patron (died 1821)
- August 25 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (died 1792)
- October 4 – Edmond Malone, Irish Shakespearean editor (died 1812)
- October 18 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French novelist (died 1803)
- October 28 – Johann August von Starck, German theologian and political writer (died 1816)
Deaths
- February 21 – Jethro Tull, English agricultural innovator and writer (born 1674)
- March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French dramatist and poet (born 1671)
- April 10 – Celia Fiennes, English travel writer (born 1662)
- December 14 – Charles Rollin, French historian (born 1661)
- December 21 – Bernard de Montfaucon, French scholar and palaeographer (born 1655)
- Unknown date – Thomas Emlyn, English Unitarian writer (born 1663)
References
- ↑ "History". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
- ↑ "First Magazine Published in America". West Hempstead Public Library. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
- ↑ Horace Walpole remarked, "there was a dozen dukes a night at Goodman's Fields." Freedley, George; Reeves, John A. (1968). A History of the Theatre. New York, Crown. p. 290.
- ↑ Simpson, Louis (1993-04-04). "There, They Could Say, Is the Jew". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-09-04.