1746 in literature
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The year 1746 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- June - Samuel Johnson is commissioned to compile A Dictionary of the English Language by a group of London booksellers.
- Probable first performance of Carlo Goldoni's comedy Servant of Two Masters (Italian: Il servitore di due padroni), at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice.
- Voltaire is elected to the Académie française.
- The oldest manuscript of Jean de Joinville's Life of Saint Louis is rediscovered in Brussels.
- Élie Catherine Fréron founds his controversial journal Lettres de la comtesse de...
- Irish actor Spranger Barry makes his London stage debut in the title role of Othello at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
New books
- John Arbuthnot - Miscellanies (posthumous)
- John Collier as "Tim Bobbin" - A View of the Lancashire Dialect
- William Collins - Odes
- Thomas Cooke - A Hymn to Liberty
- Zachary Grey - A Word or Two of Advice to William Warburton
- James Hervey - Meditations Among the Tombs
- Soame Jenyns - The Modern Fine Gentleman
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis - Astronomie nautique, volume 2
- Tobias Smollett - Advice
- Lauritz de Thurah - Den Danske Vitruvius, volume I
- John Upton - Critical Observations on Shakespeare
- Horace Walpole - The Beauties
- Joseph Warton - Odes on Various Subjects
- John Wesley
- The Principles of a Methodist Father Explain'd
- Sermons on Several Occasions
New drama
- Pierre de Marivaux - Le Préjugé vaincu
- Takeda Izumo I, Takeda Izumo II, Namiki Sōsuke and Miyoshi Shōraku[1] - Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
Poetry
- Thomas Blacklock - Poems
- See also 1746 in poetry
Births
- January 12 – Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educational reformer (died 1827)
- March 27 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (died 1767)
- April 3 – Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville, French fantasy novelist (died 1805)
- December 21 – José de la Cruz (Huseng Sisiw), Filipino writer (died 1829)
- Unknown date – Victor d'Hupay, French philosopher (died 1818)
Deaths
- February 4 – Robert Blair (poet), Scottish poet (born 1699)
- May 22 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (born 1660)
- November 12 – Mary Leapor, English working-class poet (born 1722)
- December 6 – Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet (born 1665)
- Unknown dates
- Anton Josef Kirchweger, Latin Pietist author (unknown birth year)
- Frederic Count de Thoms, German biographer of King Louis XIV of France (born 1669)
References
- ↑ Shōriya, Aragorō. "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami." Kabuki21.com. Accessed 4 December 2008.