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Overview of the events of 1745 in literature
Overview of the events of 1745 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1745 .
February – London theatres stage competing productions of Shakespeare 's King John Jacobite rising begun this summer by Bonnie Prince Charlie . David Garrick 's production of the original text at Drury Lane contrasts with Colley Cibber 's adaptation Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John at Covent Garden . The rivalry anticipates "the Romeo and Juliet [1]
September 21 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock delivers a speech on epic poetry – Abschiedsrede über die epische Poesie, kultur- und literargeschichtlich erläutert – to mark his leaving school.October 19 – Jonathan Swift , Irish satirist and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin , dies aged 78. His body is laid out in public for the people of Dublin to pay their last respects, and he is buried, in accordance with his wishes, in his cathedral by Esther Johnson 's side, with his own epitaph : Ubi sæva Indignatio/Ulterius/Cor lacerare nequit ("Where savage indignation can no longer lacerate the heart").[2] November 17 – In Bethlehem, Pennsylvania , Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg of the Moravian Church asks innkeeper Samuel Powell to begin importing and distributing books, the origins of a bookstore still in existence in 2007.[3] Latin epitaph for Jonathan Swift in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin near his burial site. Literal translation: "Here is laid the Body of Jonathan Swift, Doctor of Sacred Theology, Dean of this Cathedral Church, where savage Indignation can no longer lacerate the Heart. Go forth, Voyager, and copy, if you can, this vigorous (to the best of his ability) Champion of Liberty. He died on the 19th Day of the Month of October, A.D. 1745, in the 78th Year of his Age." New books [ edit ] In literature [ edit ] References [ edit ]
^ Michelle Lee (13 November 2000). Shakespearean Criticism ISBN 978-0-7876-4694-3 ^ McMinn, Joseph (2016). Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life ISBN 978-1-349-21253-8 ^ Duck, Michael (2007-03-04). "Book shop keeps age-old charm" . The Morning Call . Retrieved 2013-10-29 . ^ Campbell, Thomas (1861). An Essay on English Poetry; with Notices of the British Poets ^ Thomas Whincop (1747). Scanderbeg: Or, Love and Liberty. A Tragedy. Written by the Late Thomas Whincop, Esq. To which are Added a List of All the Dramatic Authors, with Some Account of Their Lives ^ Al-Amili, Muhsin (1983). Aʻyān al-Shīʻah أعيان الشيعة Notables of Shi'a ] (in Arabic) (first ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Ta'afrof. p. 228.
