1767 in literature

none thumb | right | alt=Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1767 literature poetry This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1767. Events January 29 – The former watchmaker and entrepreneur Pierre Beaumarchais has his first full-length drama, Eugénie, premièred at the Comédie-Française. Revised in two days, it establishes his reputation in this field. February – King George III of Great Britain requests an introduction to Samuel Johnson from his librarian, Frederick Augusta Barnard. They meet in the library of the Queen's House.Boswell James James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson Hibbert, Christopher Christopher Hibbert Harmondsworth Penguin Penguin Classics 1986 0140431160 134. April 24 – First professional performance of a play by an American, The Prince of Parthia by Thomas Godfrey (died 1763), at the new Southwark Theatre in Philadelphia with Lewis Hallam Jr. in a leading rôle.The Oxford Companion to American Theatre December 7 – John Street Theatre (Manhattan), the first permanent theater in New York City, is opened by David Douglass with a performance of The Beaux' Stratagem.The Oxford Companion to the Theatre 4th Construction of Teatro Real Coliseo de Carlos III de Aranjuez, the first enclosed theatre in Spain, begins. Richard Price's volume of sermons, Four Dissertations, is published by Andrew Millar and Thomas Cadell in London, and he joins the "Bowood circle", a group of liberal intellectuals around William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, at Bowood House in Wiltshire (England) and corresponds with Benjamin Franklin.J. D. Holland An Eighteenth-Century Pioneer Richard Price, D.D., F.R.S. (1723–1791) Notes and Records Royal Society London 23 1 June 1968 43–64 530851 Publication of the Epistles and Book of Revelation in Manx as Sceeuyn Paul yn Ostyl gys ny Romanee completes the first translation of the New Testament into that language.G. W. Wood An Account of the Translation and Editions of the Holy Scriptures in the Manx Language http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/history/manks/script.htm The Manx Church Magazine 6 1896 Publication of the first secular prose book in any of the Sorbian languages by Jurij Mjeń. New books Fiction James Boswell – Dorando Phebe Gibbes – The Woman of Fashion Hugh Kelly – Memoirs of a Magdalen Susannah Minifie – Barford Abbey Frances Sheridan Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (posthumous) The History of Nourjahad Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman vol. ix Unca Eliza Winkfield (pseudonym) – The Female American Arthur Young – The Adventures of Emmera Drama Pierre Beaumarchais – Eugénie Richard Bentley – Philodamus Isaac Bickerstaffe – Lace in the City George Colman the Elder The English Merchant The Oxonian in Town David Garrick – Cymon Hall Hartson – The Countess of Salisbury Thomas Hull – The Perplexities William Kenrick – The Widowed Wife Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – Minna von Barnhelm Arthur Murphy – The School for Guardians Poetry 1767 in poetry Michael Bruce – Elegy Written in Spring Francis Fawkes – Partridge-Shooting Oliver Goldsmith, ed. – The Beauties of English Poesy Richard Jago – Edge-Hill Henry Jones – Kew Garden Christopher Smart (translation) – The Works of Horace, Translated into Verse Non-fiction John Byrom – The Universal English Short-hand William Duff – An Essay on Original Genius Richard Farmer – An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare Adam Ferguson – An Essay on the History of Civil Society Baron d'Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry – Christianisme dévoilé Catharine Macaulay – Loose Remarks on Mr. Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society (on Hobbes's 1651 work) Moses Mendelssohn – Phädon Joseph Priestley – The History and Present State of Electricity William Warburton – Sermons and Discourses Arthur Young – The Farmer's Letters to the People of England Births January 1 – Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (died 1849) February 4 – Andrew Marschalk, American printer (died 1838) February 6 – Saul Ascher, German political writer and translator (died 1822) March 1 – Alexander Balfour, Scottish novelist, short-story writer and poet (died 1829) April 9 – Joseph Fiévée, French journalist, essayist, novelist and dramatist (died 1839) April 24 – Dorothy Ripley, English missionary and reformist writer (died 1832) September 6 – Thomas Bayly Howell, English legal writer (died 1815) September 8 – August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet and translator (died 1845) September 10 – Melchiorre Gioia, Italian philosophical writer (died 1829) October 25 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French novelist (died 1830) November 26 (bapt.) – Elizabeth Bentley, English poet (died 1839) December 8 – Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer (died 1825) Deaths February 16 – David Erskine Baker, English writer on drama and translator (born 1730)Nichols, John. Literary Anecdotes vol. 277. February 28 – Charles Balguy, English translator and medical writer (born 1708) April 27 – Johann Gottlob Carpzov, German Biblical scholar (born 1679) July 15 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and hymnist (born 1746) July 26 – Paul Gottlieb Werlhof, German poet and physician (born 1699) August 21 – Thomas Osborne, English publisher and bookseller (born 1704) September 11 – Theophilus Evans, Welsh historian and cleric (born 1693) October 1 – Léon Ménard, French historical writer and lawyer (born 1706)Léon Ménard December 22 – John Newbery, English children's author and publisher (born 1713) References 30em External links 1767 Books at Goodreads