1767 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1767.
Events
- January 29 - 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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 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 ntellectuals around William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, at Bowood House in Wiltshire (England) and corresponds with Benjamin Franklin.[4]
- 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.[5]
New books
- Cristóbal Anzarena - Vida y empresas literarias del ingeniosísimo caballero don Quijote de la Manchuela
- Belisarius (anonymous)
- James Boswell - Dorando
- Phebe Gibbes - The Woman of Fashion
- Hugh Kelly - Memoirs of a Magdalen
- Susannah Minifie - Barford Abbey
- Frances Sheridan
- Continuation 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 of anonymous author) - The Female American
- Arthur Young - The Adventures of Emmera
New 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
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Minna von Barnhelm
- Arthur Murphy - The School for Guardians
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
- Moses Mendes, ed. - A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry
- William Mickle - The Concubine
- Christopher Smart, trans. - 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
- Paul Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach - 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)
- April 9 – Joseph Fiévée, French journalist, essayist, novelist and dramatist (died 1839)
- 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)
- December 8 – Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer (died 1825)
- Unknown dates
- Elizabeth Bentley, English poet (died 1839)
- Dorothy Ripley, English missionary and reformist writer (died 1832)
Deaths
- February 16 – David Erskine Baker, English writer on drama and translator (born 1730)[6]
- 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, 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)[7]
- December 22 – John Newbery, English children's author and publisher (born 1713)
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