1717 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1717.
Events
- January – Three Hours After Marriage, a stage play by Alexander Pope, John Gay and John Arbuthnot, mocks the poet and critic John Dennis as "Sir Tremendous Longinus the Critic", Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea as "Clinkett the Poetess" and Colley Cibber as "Plotwell". The play encounters massive criticism and has a short run, which mortifies Pope. In February, Dennis publishes his critical Remarks upon Mr. Pope's Translation of Homer to which in May Thomas Parnell retorts with Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice. With the Remarks of Zolius. To which is prefixed, the Life of the said Zolius, after which Dennis and Pope are reconciled for a decade.
- March 2 – Ballet master John Weaver revives the pantomime genre at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London with The Loves of Mars and Venus – a new Entertainment in Dancing after the manner of the Antient Pantomimes and Perseus and Andromeda.
- March 27 – Actress Adrienne Lecouvreur is invited to join the Comédie-Française in Paris, performing first in the title rôle of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's Electre.
- April 22 – At Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London, the actor-manager John Rich introduces the character of Harlequin into pantomimes.
- May 16 – Voltaire is sentenced to eleven months in the Bastille and banished from Paris for criticizing the Duc D'Orléans. While in prison he writes his first play, Oedipe ("Oedipus").
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- The last two volumes of Antoine Galland's Les mille et une nuits are published posthumously in Lyon of the first translation of One Thousand and One Nights into a European language, including the first translation of the story of Ali Baba.
- The Irish poet Hugh MacCurtin (Aodh Buidhe Mac Cuirtin)'s A brief discourse in vindication of the antiquity of Ireland, out of many authentick Irish histories and chronicles (based on Geoffrey Keating's History of Ireland) is published in Dublin. The author is imprisoned in the city about this time.
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References
- ^ a b Paul, Harry Gilbert (1911). John Dennis: His Life and Criticism. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 91. Retrieved 2010-02-11. Grounds of Criticism
- ^ a b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1973). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Tibbett to M. West. SIU Press. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-8093-1802-5.
- ^ Dircks, Phyllis T. (2004). "Rich, John (1692–1761)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23486. Retrieved 2014-12-10. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ This Day in History.
- ^ Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
- ^ Nicoll (25 June 2009). History of English Drama, 1660-1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-521-10929-1.
- ^ a b Nicoll (25 June 2009). History of English Drama, 1660-1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-0-521-10929-1.
- ^ "Elizabeth Carter - British Author". Britannica.com. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ Thompson Cooper (1874). A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries. Macmillan. p. 259.
- ^ Jean Noël Paquot (1970). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire littéraire des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas: de la principauté de Liège, et de quelques contrées voisines (in French). Gregg International. p. 437. ISBN 978-0-576-72862-1.
- ^ William Diaper (1952). The Complete Works of William Diaper. Harvard University Press. p. 210.