1783 in literature

none 1783 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1783. Events thumb|Second edition of Nathan the Wise in its first year of publication, 1779, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland April 14 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama Nathan the Wise receives its first professional performance, at the Döbbelinsches Theater of Berlin.https://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/stratford-festival-review-a-thought-provoking-theatrical-experience Stratford Festival review: A thought-provoking theatrical experience Dale Geoff June 17, 2019 Stratford Beacon-Herald September 5, 2019 September 5, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190905032124/https://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/stratford-festival-review-a-thought-provoking-theatrical-experience deadThe centerpiece of the work is the "Ring Parable", narrated by Nathan when asked by Saladin which religion is true: an heirloom magic ring has the magical ability to render its owner pleasing in the eyes of both God and mankind. It had been passed down from father to son. For generations, each father had bequeathed the ring to the son he loved most. When it came to a father with three sons whom he loved equally, he promised it (in "pious weakness") to each of them. Looking for a way to keep his promise, he had two replicas made, which were indistinguishable from the original, and gave on his deathbed a ring to each of them.Iris Shagrir Iris Shagrir The Parable of the Three Rings: A Revision of Its History Journal of Medieval History 23 1997 2 163–177 10.1016/S0304-4181(97)00004-3The brothers quarreled over who owned the real ring. A wise judge admonished them that it was impossible to tell at that time – that it even could not be discounted that all three rings were replicas, the original one having been lost at some point in the past; that to find out whether one of them had the real ring, it was up to them to live in such a way that their ring's powers could be proven true, to live a life that is pleasant in the eyes of God and mankind rather than expecting the ring's miraculous powers to do so. Nathan compares this to religion, saying that each of us lives by the religion we have learned from those we respect. http://www.gkoehn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/NathanTransExcerpt.pdf English translation of the parable, with German original gkoehn.com May 6 – William Cobbett arrives in London to work, and later in the year joins the 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot. September – Friedrich Schiller, having left Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution, becomes resident dramatist at Mannheim.[Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Biography. Accessed 12 February 2013.] November 18 – August von Kotzebue leaves St Petersburg to take up a position with the high court of appeal in Reval, then subject to the Russian Empire.Patricia Anne Simpson Birgit Tautz Goethe Yearbook 27 https://books.google.com/books?id=ejnpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA260 18 May 2020 Boydell & Brewer 978-1-64014-061-5 260– New books Fiction Jozef Ignác Bajza – René Rhijnvis Feith – Julia Thomas Holcroft – The Family Picture Sophia Lee – The Recess Johann Karl August Musäus – Volksmärchen der Deutschen (second volume) Clara Reeve – The Two Mentors Children Thomas Day (anonymously) – The History of Sandford and Merton (first of three story books)https://www.broadviewpress.com/product.php?productid=956 Broadview Press The History of Sandford and Merton 2013-02-12 2012-02-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20120215001558/http://www.broadviewpress.com/product.php?productid=956 dead Ellenor Fenn (as Mrs. Teachwell) – Cobwebs to Catch Flies Dorothy Kilner (as M. P.) – The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse Mary Ann Kilner A Course of Lectures for Sunday Evenings. Containing religious advice to young persons (as S. S.) The Adventures of a Pincushion Drama Vittorio Alfieri – Agamennone Frances Brooke – Roxina Hannah Cowley – Which is the Man? Richard Cumberland – The Mysterious Husband John O'Keeffe – The Poor Soldier William Jackson – The Metamorphosis Samuel Jackson Pratt – The School for Vanity Poetry 1783 in poetry Lady Anne Barnard – Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously) William Blake – Poetical Sketches Judith Cowper – The Progress of Poetry George Crabbe – The Village Joseph Ritson – A Select Collection of English Songs John Wolcot (as Peter Pindar) – More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians See also 1783 in poetry Non-fiction James Beattie – Dissertations Moral and Critical William Beckford – Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents Hugh Blair – Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres Edmund Burke – Letter on the Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics Adam Ferguson – History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic William Godwin – Life of Lord Chatham Immanuel Kant – Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science Vicesimus Knox – Elegant Extracts Mémoires secrets (anonymous) Moses Mendelssohn – Jerusalem Ezra Stiles – The United States elevated to Glory and Honor Horace-Bénédict de Saussure – Essai sur l'hygrométrie Births January 23 – Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), French novelist (died 1842)Nemo August Essential Novelists - Stendhal: modern consciousness of reality Tacet Books 2020 978-3-96799-211-3 enhttps://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4209 Literary Encyclopedia – Stendhal litencyc.com April 3 – Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist and politician (died 1859)Washington Irving – American author https://www.britannica.com/biography/Washington-Irving Encyclopedia Britannica 3 January 2017 May 14 – Samuel Lee, English orientalist and linguist (died 1852)Lee, Samuel (1783-1852) Thomas Hamilton 32 378–9 September 23 – Jane Taylor, English poet and novelist (died 1824) December 10 – María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright (died c. 1873)http://www.encaribe.org/es/article/maria-bibiana-benitez/1112 https://web.archive.org/web/20141102212248/http://www.encaribe.org/es/article/maria-bibiana-benitez/1112 dead November 2, 2014 María Bibiana Benítez Encicopledia de Historía y Cultura del Caribe En Caribe es 2018-12-08 dmy-all Deaths January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss journalist and critic writing in German (born 1698)The Musical World https://books.google.com/books?id=DJEPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA583 1878 J. Alfredo Novello 583 April 17 – Louise d'Epinay French writer and salon hostess (born 1726) September 6 – Anna Williams, Welsh-born poet (born 1706) October 10 – Henry Brooke, Irish novelist, playwright, and poet (born 1703) October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1717) November 3 – Charles Collé, French dramatist and songwriter (born 1709) November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker, American poet, novelist and letter writer (born 1752)Joel Munsell The annals of Albany https://books.google.com/books?id=bpcMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA135 1855 J. Munsell 135 References 30em External links 1783 Books at Goodreads