1741 in literature

none 1741 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1741. Events January 15 – The revival in the London theatre of Shakespeare plays featuring actresses in travesti roles continues at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with Hannah Pritchard as Viola in Twelfth Night, a play not performed for more than 70 years. Kitty Clive plays Olivia. Mrs Pritchard's Rosalind (As You Like It) remains in the repertory.Fiona Ritchie Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Actress Borrowers and Lenders 2 2 2006 https://borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/article/view/50 2023-12-29 January 29 – A life-size memorial to William Shakespeare (d. 1616), designed by William Kent and sculpted by Peter Scheemakers, is erected in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.History http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/william-shakespeare Westminster Abbey 2013-11-29 February 13 – Andrew Bradford launches the American colonies' first periodical in Philadelphia, the American Magazine.http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2011/02/first_magazine_published_in_am.html West Hempstead Public Library First Magazine Published in America 2012-07-22 https://archive.today/20130416032332/http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2011/02/first_magazine_published_in_am.html 2013-04-16 dead February 14 – Irish-born actor Charles Macklin makes his London stage debut as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, pioneering a psychologically realistic style with Shakespeare's text revived, replacing George Granville's melodramatic adaptation The Jew of Venice.John Russell Brown Shakespeare's Plays in Performance Hal Leonard Corporation 1993 63There, They Could Say, Is the Jew 1993-04-04 Louis Simpson https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/gross-shylock.html The New York Times 2013-09-04 Kitty Clive plays the travesti role of Portia with Mrs Pritchard as Nerissa. March 14 – K. K. Theater an der Burg (Imperial Court Theatre) in Vienna opens. October 19 – David Garrick makes his London stage debut in the title role of Shakespeare's Richard III. His performance quickly packs theaters.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. His professional debut was earlier in the year at Ipswich, in Thomas Southerne's adaptation of Oroonoko. unknown date The first translation of a Shakespeare play into German, Julius Caesar, is made by C. W. von Bork, using alexandrines.The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare 2nd Oxford University Press 2015 978-0-19-870873-5 Printer Robert Foulis sets up as a publisher in Edinburgh.Stephen W Brown Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=QYxvAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR18 30 November 2011 Edinburgh University Press 978-0-7486-5095-8 18 New books Fiction Anonymous The Life of Pamela (parody of Richardson's Pamela)Eliza Haywood Henry Fielding Anti-Pamela and Shamela https://books.google.com/books?id=klvjJDtpllwC&pg=PA304 29 January 2004 Broadview Press 978-1-55111-383-8 304 Pamela Censured Charles Balguy (anonymous translator) – The Decameron Comte de Caylus – Les Féeries nouvellesNicholas Cronk Kris Peeters Le comte de Caylus: les arts et les lettres : actes du colloque international Université d'Anvers (UFSIA) et Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 26-27 mai 2000 https://books.google.com/books?id=6lSwiAYN3CkC&pg=PA209 2004 Rodopi 90-420-1139-4 209 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) 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 (also known as Familiar Letters) Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded vols. iii – iv Hristofor Zhefarovich – Stemmatographia Drama Anonymous – Pamela; or, Virtue Triumphant Robert Dodsley – The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (adapted from 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 Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée – Mélanide Voltaire – Mahomet (Le fanatisme, ou Mahomet le Prophète, first performed) Poetry 1741 in poetry Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer (new edition revives interest) William Shenstone – The Judgment of Hercules Edward Young – Poetical Works of the Reverend Edward Young Alonso Verdugo, third Earl of Torrepalma – Adonis John and Charles Wesley – A Collection of Psalms and Hymns 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 Real Academia Española – Ortografía Luigi Riccoboni – An Historical and Critical Account of the Theatres of Europe Martín Sarmiento – Memorias para la historia de la poesía y poetas españoles 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 edition by Edmund Curll, for which 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 6 – Sarah Trimmer, English writer for children (died 1810) 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 January 9 – William Gwavas, English lawyer and writer in the Cornish language (born 1676) 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) July 30 – Thomas Emlyn, English Unitarian writer (born 1663) December 14 – Charles Rollin, French historian (born 1661) December 21 – Bernard de Montfaucon, French scholar and palaeographer (born 1655)John Lauris Blake A General Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=wypmNIBUGokC&pg=PA658 1842 James Kay, Jun. and Brother 658 unknown date – Anne Dick, Scottish comic poet and lampoonist (year of birth unknown)James Grant Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh: Its History, Its People, and Its Places https://books.google.com/books?id=GIIJAAAAIAAJ 1884 Cassell 114 References 30em