1733 in literature
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The year 1733 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- Antoine François PrévostAntoine François PrévostAntoine François Prévost , usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist.- Life and works :...
(Abbé Prévost) arrives in London, where he will edit Le Pour et centre. - VoltaireVoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
begins his relationship with Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet. - Laurence SterneLaurence SterneLaurence Sterne was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics...
enters Jesus College, CambridgeJesus College, CambridgeJesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...
. - Romeo and JulietRomeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
becomes the first of ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
's plays to be performed in America. - Charles MacklinCharles MacklinCharles Macklin , originally Cathal MacLochlainn , was an actor and dramatist born in Culdaff, a village on the scenic Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal, part of the Province of Ulster in the north of Ireland. He was one of the most distinguished actors of his day, equally in tragedy and comedy...
makes his debut at Drury Lane TheatreTheatre Royal, Drury LaneThe Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane. The building standing today is the most recent in a line of four theatres at the same location dating back to 1663,...
in The Recruiting OfficerThe Recruiting OfficerThe Recruiting Officer is a 1706 play by the Irish writer George Farquhar, which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury to recruit soldiers...
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New books
- Anonymous - Verses Address'd to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace (attrib. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu) (to Pope, below)
- George BerkeleyGeorge BerkeleyGeorge Berkeley , also known as Bishop Berkeley , was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism"...
- The Theory of Vision - Samuel BowdenSamuel BowdenSamuel Bowden was an English physician and poetBowden, from Frome, Somerset, was author of two volumes of poems published 1733-5. From the Gentleman's Magazine, to which he was an occasional contributor, it is deduced that he was living in 1761, while a passing mention of him in 1778 is in the...
- Poetical Essays - James BramstonJames BramstonJames Bramston , satirist, educated at Westminster School and Oxford, took orders and was later Vicar of Harting. His poems are The Art of Politics , in imitation of Horace, and The Man of Taste , in imitation of Pope. He also parodied Phillips's Splendid Shilling in The Crooked Sixpence. His...
- The Man of Taste (answer to Pope from 17321732 in literatureThe year 1732 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first edition of Poor Richard's Almanac, by Benjamin Franklin, is published....
) - John Durant BrevalJohn Durant BrevalJohn Durant Breval , was a miscellaneous writer.Breval was descended from a French refugee protestant family, and was the son of Francis Durant de Breval, prebendary of Westminster, where he was probably born about 1680...
as "Joseph Gay" - Morality in Vice (part of Curll'sEdmund CurllEdmund Curll was an English bookseller and publisher. His name has become synonymous, through the attacks on him by Alexander Pope, with unscrupulous publication and publicity. Curll rose from poverty to wealth through his publishing, and he did this by approaching book printing in a mercenary...
continuing war with John GayJohn GayJohn Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch...
) - Peter BrownePeter BrownePeter Browne , Irish divine and bishop of Cork and Ross, was born in County Dublin, not long after the Restoration.He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1682, and after ten years' residence obtained a fellowship...
- Things Supernatural and Divine Conceived by Analogy with things Natural and Human - Mary ChandlerMary ChandlerMary Chandler was an English poet. George Crabb writes that she left several poems, ‘the most esteemed of which was her “Bath”’.-Life:...
- A Description of Bath - Richard GravesRichard GravesRichard Graves was an English minister, poet, and novelist.Born at Mickleton Manor, Mickleton, Gloucestershire, to Richard Graves, gentleman, and his wife, Elizabeth, Graves was a student at Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford...
- The Spiritual Quixote - James HammondJames HammondJames Hammond was an eighteenth-century British poet included in Doctor Johnson's Lives of the Poets....
- An Elegy to a Young Lady - John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey - An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron LytteltonGeorge Lyttelton, 1st Baron LytteltonGeorge Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton PC , known as Sir George Lyttelton, Bt between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.-Background and education:...
- Advice to a Lady - Samuel MaddenSamuel MaddenSamuel Madden was an Irish author. His works include Themistocles; The Lover of His Country, Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland, and Memoirs of the Twentieth Century. Dr...
- Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (a roman á clefRoman à clefRoman à clef or roman à clé , French for "novel with a key", is a phrase used to describe a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people, and the "key" is the relationship between the nonfiction and the fiction...
about George II) - David MalletDavid Mallet (writer)David Mallet was a Scottish dramatist.He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and went to London in 1723 to work as a private tutor...
- Of Verbal Criticism (to Pope) - Thomas Newcomb - The Woman of Taste (reaction to Pope's Epistle of 1732)
- Alexander PopeAlexander PopeAlexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
- "Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (3) "Society" (continuation of Essay on Man; the first two "epistles" were published in 1732 & the fourth in 1744)
- Of the Use of Riches: An Epistle to Lord Bathurst (aka the Epistle to Bathurst)
- The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
- The Impertinent
- Elizabeth RoweElizabeth Rowe-Life:She was the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Portnell and Walter Singer, a dissenting minister. Born in Ilchester, Somerset, England, she began writing at the age of twelve and when she was nineteen, began a correspondence with John Dunton, bookseller and founder of the Athenian Society.Between...
- Letters Moral and Entertaining - Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
- On Poetry, a Rhapsody (contained explicit attacks on George II, as well as many of the "dunces", resulting in arrests and prosecution.)
- The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift
- VoltaireVoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
- Letters Concerning the English NationLetters on the EnglishLettres philosophiques or ) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England between 1722 and 1734. It was published in both French and English in 1734... - Isaac WattsIsaac WattsIsaac Watts was an English hymnwriter, theologian and logician. A prolific and popular hymnwriter, he was recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", credited with some 750 hymns...
- Philosophical Essays
New drama
- John Durant BrevalJohn Durant BrevalJohn Durant Breval , was a miscellaneous writer.Breval was descended from a French refugee protestant family, and was the son of Francis Durant de Breval, prebendary of Westminster, where he was probably born about 1680...
- The Rape of Helen (printed 1737) - Charles CoffeyCharles CoffeyCharles Coffey was an Irish playwright and composer.His best known opera is probably The Beggar’s Wedding , which capitalizes on the success of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera...
- The Boarding School (performed and published) - Henry FieldingHenry FieldingHenry Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones....
- The Miser (from Molière) - John GayJohn GayJohn Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch...
- Achilles (opera) (posth.) - Eliza HaywoodEliza HaywoodEliza Haywood , born Elizabeth Fowler, was an English writer, actress and publisher. Since the 1980s, Eliza Haywood’s literary works have been gaining in recognition and interest...
- The Opera of Operas (adapt. of Fielding's Tom Thumb, with a pro-WalpoleRobert WalpoleRobert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC , known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain....
"reconciliation" scene) (opera) - John Kelly - Timon in Love
- Edward Phillips
- The Livery Rake
- The Mock Lawyer
- The Stage Mutineers
- António José da SilvaAntónio José da SilvaAntónio José da Silva was a Portuguese-Brazilian dramatist, known as "the Jew" . The Brazilian spelling of his first name is Antônio.-Life:...
- Vida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Pança - Lewis TheobaldLewis TheobaldLewis Theobald , British textual editor and author, was a landmark figure both in the history of Shakespearean editing and in literary satire...
(ed.) - The Works of ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
Poetry
- John BanksJohn BanksJohn Banks may refer to:*Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet , English merchant and Member of Parliament for several constituencies in Kent*John Banks , English playwright*John Banks *John Banks John Banks may refer to:*Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet (1627–1699), English merchant and Member of Parliament for...
- Poems on Several Occasions - Thomas FitzgeraldThomas FitzgeraldThomas Fitzgerald was an American politician who served as a judge and state legislator in both Indiana and Michigan, and as a United States Senator from Michigan....
- Poems - Matthew GreenMatthew Green (poet)Matthew Green was a British poet born of Nonconformist parents. For many years he held a post in the custom house. The few anecdotes that have been preserved show him to have been as witty as his poems would lead one to expect: on one occasion, when the government was about to cut off funds that...
as "Peter Drake" - The Grotto - Mary Masters - Poems
- See also 1733 in poetry1733 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Anonymous, Verses Address'd to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, "By a lady", has been attributed to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu* John Banks, Poems on Several...
Births
- January 12 - Antoine-Marin LemierreAntoine-Marin LemierreAntoine-Marin Lemierre was a French dramatist and poet.He was born in Paris, into a poor family, butfound a patron in the collector-general of taxes, Dupin, whose secretary he became. Lemierre gained his first success on the stage with Hypermnestre ; Titre and Idomne failed on account of the...
, French poet and dramatist (died 17931793 in literature-Events:*William Wordsworth tours Wales and western England, writing some of his best-known poems.-New books:*Charlotte Turner Smith**The Old Manor House**The Emigrants*Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke - Abällino, der grosse Bandit-New drama:...
) - March 13 - Joseph PriestleyJoseph PriestleyJoseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works...
, English natural philosopher and theologian (died 18041804 in literatureThe year 1804 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*John Keats' father dies from a fractured skull after falling from his horse.*Samuel Taylor Coleridge re-locates to Malta....
) - March 18 - Christoph Friedrich NicolaiChristoph Friedrich NicolaiChristoph Friedrich Nicolai was a German writer and bookseller.Nicolai was born in Berlin, where his father, Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai , was the founder of the famous Nicolaische Buchhandlung...
, critic and bookseller (died 18111811 in literatureThe year 1811 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.-New books:*Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility*Amelia Beauclerc - Eva of Cambria*Mary Brunton - Self-Control...
) - August 22 - Jean-François DucisJean-François DucisJean-François Ducis was a French dramatist and adapter of Shakespeare.-Biography:Ducis was born at Versailles....
, dramatist (died 18161816 in literatureThe year 1816 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* July - Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Polidori, gathered at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in a rainy Switzerland in this 'Year Without a Summer', tell each other tales...
) - September 5 - Christoph Martin WielandChristoph Martin WielandChristoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer.- Biography :He was born at Oberholzheim , which then belonged to the Free Imperial City of Biberach an der Riss in the south-east of the modern-day state of Baden-Württemberg...
, German poet (died 18131813 in literatureThe year 1813 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Robert Southey with Life of Nelson, Arthur Schopenhauer's Sufficient Reason, and Shelley's Queen Mab.-Events:...
) - date unknown - Robert LloydRobert Lloyd (poet)Robert Lloyd was an English poet and satirist.-Life:Robert Lloyd was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1755 and M.A. in 1758. He was author of the popular poem The Actor and the comic opera The Capricious Lovers , first performed at Drury Lane just...
, poet and satirist (died 17641764 in literatureSee also: 1763 in literature, other events of 1764, 1765 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* January 19 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel for his article criticising King George III in The North Briton.* October 15 - While visiting...
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Deaths
- January 19 - Bernard de MandevilleBernard de MandevilleBernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville , was a philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works...
, satirist and philosopher (born 1670) - March 12 - Michel Le QuienMichel Le QuienMichel Le Quien was a French historian and theologian. He studied at Plessis College, Paris, and at twenty entered the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he made his profession in 1682. Excepting occasional short absences he never left Paris...
, theologian and historian (born 1661) - March 13 - Mademoiselle AïsséMademoiselle AïsséMademoiselle Charlotte Aïssé , , French letter-writer, was the daughter of a Circassian chief, and was born about 1694....
, letter-writer (born c.1694) - June 23 - Johann Jakob ScheuchzerJohann Jakob ScheuchzerJohann Jakob Scheuchzer was a Swiss scholar born at Zürich.thumb|Herbarium deluvianumthumb|Zürich, Zwingli-Platz : Former home of Konrad von Mure and the house, where Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was bornthumb|Memorial plate-Career:The son of the senior town physician of Zürich, he received his...
, scholar (born 1672) - August 16 - Matthew TindalMatthew TindalMatthew Tindal was an eminent English deist author. His works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great controversy and challenged the Christian consensus of his time.-Life:...
, deist writer (born 1657) - date unknown
- John DuntonJohn DuntonJohn Dunton was an English bookseller and author. In 1691, he founded an Athenian Society to publish The Athenian Mercury, the first major popular periodical and first miscellaneous periodical in England.-Early life:...
, writer and booksseller (born 1659) - Bernard de MandevilleBernard de MandevilleBernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville , was a philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works...
, philosopher (born 1670)
- John Dunton