1733 in literature
This article is a summary of the major literary events and publications of 1733.
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Events
- Early – The first three epistles of Alexander Pope's poem An Essay on Man are published anonymously.
- May – Voltaire begins his long-term relationship with Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet.
- Laurence Sterne enters Jesus College, Cambridge.
- Romeo and Juliet becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed in America.
- Charles Macklin makes his debut at Drury Lane Theatre in The Recruiting Officer.
New books
Prose
- George Berkeley – The Theory of Vision
- James Bramston – The Man of Taste (answer to Pope from 1732)
- John Durant Breval (as Joseph Gay) – Morality in Vice (part of Curll's continuing war with John Gay)
- Peter Browne – Things Supernatural and Divine Conceived by Analogy with things Natural and Human
- George Cheyne – The English Malady
- Thomas-Simon Gueullette – Les Mille et une Heures, contes péruviens (Peruvian Tales: Related in One Thousand and One Hours, by One of the Select Virgins of Cusco)
- John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey – An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton – Advice to a Lady
- Samuel Madden – Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (roman à clef about George II)
- David Mallet – Of Verbal Criticism (to Pope)
- Thomas Newcomb – The Woman of Taste (reaction to Pope's Epistle of 1732)
- Alexander Pope
- "Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (3) "Society" (continuation of Essay on Man; the first two "epistles" published in 1732, the fourth in 1744)
- Of the Use of Riches: An Epistle to Lord Bathurst (also as Epistle to Bathurst)
- The Impertinent
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Letters Moral and Entertaining
- Jonathan Swift
- On Poetry, a Rhapsody (contains explicit attacks on George II and many of the "dunces", resulting in arrests and prosecution.)
- The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift
- Voltaire – Letters Concerning the English Nation
- Isaac Watts – Philosophical Essays
Drama
- John Durant Breval – The Rape of Helen (printed 1737)
- Charles Coffey – The Boarding School (performed and published)
- Henry Fielding – The Miser (from Molière)
- John Gay (died 1732) – Achilles (opera)
- Eliza Haywood – The Opera of Operas (adaptation of Fielding's Tom Thumb, with a pro-Walpole "reconciliation" scene) (opera)
- John Kelly – Timon in Love
- Edward Phillips
- The Livery Rake
- The Mock Lawyer
- The Stage Mutineers
- António José da Silva – Vida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Pança
- Lewis Theobald (ed.) – The Works of Shakespeare
Poetry
- Anonymous – Verses Address'd to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace (attrib. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, to Pope)
- John Banks – Poems on Several Occasions
- Samuel Bowden – Poetical Essays
- Mary Chandler – A Description of Bath
- Thomas Fitzgerald – Poems
- Matthew Green (as Peter Drake) – The Grotto
- James Hammond – An Elegy to a Young Lady
- Alexander Pope –The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
- See also 1733 in poetry
Births
- January 12 – Antoine-Marin Lemierre, French poet and dramatist (died 1793)
- March 13 – Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (died 1804)
- March 18 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German critic and bookseller (died 1811)
- August 22 – Jean-François Ducis, French dramatist (died 1816)
- September 5 – Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet (died 1813)
- Unknown date – Robert Lloyd, English poet and satirist (died 1764)[1]
Deaths
- January 21 – Bernard de Mandeville, Dutch-born satirist and philosopher writing in English (born 1670)
- March 12 – Michel Le Quien, French theologian and historian (born 1661)
- March 13 – Mademoiselle Aïssé, Circassian-born French letter-writer (born c. 1694)
- May 10 – Jacob August Franckenstein, German lexicographer (born 1689)
- June 23 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (born 1672)
- August 16 – Matthew Tindal, English deist writer (born 1657)
- Unknown date – John Dunton, English writer and bookseller (born 1659)[2]
References
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- Berry, Helen M. (2004). "Dunton, John (1659–1732)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online ed., Jan 2008, accessed 7 Sept 2008
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