1726 in literature

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List of years in literature (table)

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1726.

Events

  • February - Lavinia Fenton makes her stage debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's The Orphan at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
  • April 5 - Publication 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.
  • May 1 - Voltaire arrives for a 3-year stay in England.
  • October 26 - Publication in London (anonymously in two volumes) of Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels 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 within a week.
  • Teatro Valle opens in Rome.
  • Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism to receive a church pension and annuls her marriage.
  • The Gujin Tushu Jicheng, an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using copper-based movable type printing.

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

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