1786 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1786.
Events
- January 19 – Franziska Stading plays the female lead in Gustav Vasa (with libretto personally overseen by King Gustav III of Sweden) at the Royal Swedish Opera.[1]
- July 31 – Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published by John Wilson in Kilmarnock. The volume proves so popular that Burns abandons his plans to emigrate to Jamaica on September 1 for a post as a bookkeeper on a slave plantation and on November 27 sets out for Edinburgh on a borrowed pony.
- September–December – Goethe undertakes his Italian Journey (published 1817).
- November – Boydell Shakespeare Gallery inaugurated in London.
New books
- William Thomas Beckford – Vathek
- James Boswell – Dorado, a Spanish Tale (published anonymously)
- Harriet Lee – The Errors of Innocence[2]
- Rudolf Erich Raspe (published anonymously)
- Singular Travels, Campaigns, Voyages, and Sporting Adventures of Baron Munnikhouson, commonly pronounced Munchausen (2nd edn)
- Translated into German from English by Gottfried August Bürger – The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen
- André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat – Le Diable au Corps
- Friedrich Schiller – The Ghost-Seer (Der Geisterseher, publication commences)
- Sarah Trimmer – Fabulous Histories[3]
New drama
- Tituš Brezovački – Sveti Aleksij
- John Burgoyne – The Heiress and Richard Coeur de Lion
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Iphigenia in Tauris (verse version)
- Elizabeth Inchbald – The Widow’s Vow
- John O'Keeffe – Love in a Camp
New poetry
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Non-fiction
- John Gilchrist – A Dictionary English and Hindoostanee. To which Is Prefixed a Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language (begins publication)
- Immanuel Kant – Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft
- Friedrich Schiller – Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre
- Emanuel Swedenborg – Divine Love and Wisdom (translated from Latin into French by Antoine-Joseph Pernety)
- Hester Thrale – Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson
Births
- February 3 – Wilhelm Gesenius, German philologist and theologian (died 1842)
- February 24 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (died 1859)
- May 10 – Esther Copley, English children's writer and tractarian (died 1851)
- May 12 – Jean-François Barrière, French historian (died 1868)
- June 20 – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (died 1859)
- June 26 – Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (died 1855)
- August 25 – James Silk Buckingham, English journalist and travel writer (died 1855)
- October 23 – Barron Field, English-born Australian poet (died 1846)
- December 6 – Caroline Anne Southey (Caroline Anne Bowles), English poet (died 1854)
- Unknown date – Eaton Stannard Barrett, Irish satirical poet and novelist (died 1820)
Deaths
- January 19 – John Duncombe, English writer and cleric (born 1729)
- March 11 – Jacobus Bellamy, Dutch poet (born 1757)
- April 13 – Jan Tomáš Kuzník, Czech musician and poet (born 1716)
- May 4 – Johann Kaspar Füssli, artist, writer and publisher (born 1743)
- August 15 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classicist and critic (born 1730)
- November 30 – Thomas Thistlewood, English-born Jamaican diarist (born 1721)
- December 26 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian dramatist and critic (born 1713)
References
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- ↑ University of Montreal: British Women Playwrights around 1800 Accessed 28 April 2013
- ↑ Grenby, M.O. “‘A Conservative Woman Doing Radical Things’: Sarah Trimmer and The Guardian of Education.” Culturing the Child, 1690–1914. Ed. Donelle Ruwe. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5182-2, "Introduction", viii.
