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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1726.
Events[edit]
- February – Lavinia Fenton makes her stage debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's The Orphan at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
- April 5 – Publication takes place in London of Lewis Theobald's Shakespeare Restored, or A Specimen of the Many Errors As Well Committed as Unamended by Mr Pope in his Late Edition of this Poet; Designed Not only to correct the said Edition, but to restore the True Reading of Shakespeare in all the Editions ever yet published.[1]
- May 10 – Voltaire leaves France for a three-year stay in Britain.[2]
- May 25 – Britain's first circulating library is opened in Edinburgh by the poet and bookseller Allan Ramsay.[3][4]
- July – Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism to receive a church pension, and annuls her marriage.[5]
- October 28 – Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels is published in London, anonymously in two volumes, as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. It sells out in a week.[2]
- unknown dates
- The Teatro Valle opens in Rome.
- The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (古今圖書集成), an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using copper-based movable type printing.
New books[edit]
Fiction[edit]
- Penelope Aubin – The Life and Adventures of the Lady Lucy (novel)
- Jane Barker – The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (sequel to 1723's A Patch-Work Screen)
- William Rufus Chetwood – The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle (fiction, sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe)
- Eliza Haywood
- The City Jilt
- The Mercenary Lover
- Jonathan Swift
Drama[edit]
- Venkata Ajapura – Mairavana Kalaga[6]
- Aaron Hill – The Fatal Extravagance (printed, staged in 1721)
- Charles Johnson – The Female Fortune Teller
- Thomas Southerne – Money the Mistress
- Leonard Welsted – The Dissembled Wanton
- Richard West – Hecuba
Poetry[edit]
- Alexander Pope – The Odyssey of Homer
- Richard Savage – Miscellaneous Poems
- William Somervile – Occasional Poems
- Jonathan Swift (anonymously) – Cadenus and Vanessa (written 1713)
- James Thomson – Winter (part of The Four Seasons)
Non-fiction[edit]
- John Balguy – A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion
- Joseph Butler – Fifteen Sermons
- Anthony Collins – The Scheme of Literal Prophecy
- Corporate authorship – The Craftsman (periodical associated with Henry St. John)
- Daniel Defoe
- The Political History of the Devil
- A System of Magick
- John Dennis – The Stage Defended (reply to Law, below)
- José Francisco de Isla – Papeles critico-apologéticos
- William Law
- The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage
- A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection
- Samuel Penhallow – History of the Wars of New-England with the Eastern Indians
- William Penn
- Fruits of a Father's Love
- A Collection of the Works of William Penn
- (with William Pulteney) – The Discovery
- Martín Sarmiento – Reflexiones sobre el Diccionario de la lengua castellana que compuso la Real Academia en el año de 1726
- George Shelvocke – A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea
- Joseph Spence – An Essay on Popes' Odyssey
- Lewis Theobald – Shakespeare Restored
- Diego de Torres Villarroel – El ermitaño y Torres
Births[edit]
- March 11 – Louise d'Épinay, French writer (died 1783)
- April 7 – Charles Burney, English historian of music and composer (died 1814)
- June 14 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist and writer (died 1798)
- September 2 – John Howard, English philanthropist and writer (died 1790)
- September 25 – Angelo Maria Bandini, Italian author and librarian (died 1800)
- September 26 – John H. D. Anderson, Scottish natural philosopher (died 1796)
Deaths[edit]
- March 24 – Daniel Whitby, English theologian (born 1638)
- March 26 – Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist and architect (born 1664)
- April 5 – Ludwig Babenstuber, German theologian and philosopher (born 1660)
- April 26 – Jeremy Collier, English theologian and critic (born 1650)
- May 20 – Nicholas Brady, Irish poet (born 1659)
- July 5 – Domenico Viva, Italian theologian (born 1648)
- July 6 – Humfrey Wanley, English librarian and palaeographer (born 1672)
- August 12 – Charles Shadwell, English dramatist (year of birth unknown)[7]
- December 2 – Samuel Penhallow, English historian (born 1665)
- December 11 – Jacques Bouillart, French Benedictine historian (born 1669)
References[edit]
- ^ Peter Seary; Associate Professor Department of English New College Peter Seary (1990). Lewis Theobald and the Editing of Shakespeare. Clarendon Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-19-812965-3.
- ^ a b Roger Pearson (15 December 2010). Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom. A&C Black. pp. 84–. ISBN 978-1-4088-2080-3.
- ^ Altick, Richard D. (1957). The English Common Reader. University of Chicago Press.
- ^ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
- ^ Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (18 February 2014). Mémoire à M. Boudet: Nouvelle édition augmentée. Arvensa editions. p. 8. ISBN 979-10-273-0033-4.
- ^ Karantha, K. Shivarama (1997). Yakṣagāna. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications. p. 172. ISBN 81-7017-357-4.
- ^ Alexander Chalmers (1816). The General Biographical Dictionary. J. Nichols. p. 369.