1750 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1750.
Events
- March – The Rambler is founded by Edward Cave; it lasts for 208 issues, and is mostly written by Samuel Johnson.
- March 5 – Shakespeare's Richard II (in Colley Cibber's version) is presented at their theatre on Nassau Street (Manhattan) by Walter Murray and Thomas Kean,[1] the earliest known significant professional performance of Shakespeare in North America.
- Weekly meetings for contributors to the Encyclopédie begin, at the salon of Baron d'Holbach.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau wins the prize of the Academy of Dijon for his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences.
- The London theatres wage "the Romeo and Juliet war" — competing productions with David Garrick and Anne Bellamy at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane versus Spranger Barry and Susannah Cibber at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
- Old Orchard Street Theatre opens in Bath (England) under the management of John Palmer, with a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2.[2]
- Carlo Goldoni commits himself to writing a comedy for each week of the 1750–51 seasons at Gerolamo Medebach's Teatro San Angelo in Venice – 16 plays.[3]
- After taking his MD at Aberdeen, Tobias Smollett travels in France, collecting material for The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
New fiction
- Anonymous
- The Adventures of Mr. Loveill, interspers'd with many real amours of the modern polite world
- The Nominal Husband, or, Distress'd Innocence
- Revived Fugitive: a novel, translated from the French
- Henry Brooke – A New Collection of Fairy Tales
- John Cleland – Fanny Hill (official and expurgated)
- Sarah Fielding (attr.) – The History of Charlotte Summers
- Edward Kimber – The Life and Adventures of Joe Thompson
- Charlotte Lennox – The Life of Harriot Stuart
- Robert Paltock – The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins
- Sarah Scott – The History of Cornelia
New drama
- Kitty Clive – The Rehearsal, or, Bays in Petticoats
- Carlo Goldoni
- La Bottega di Caffe ("The Coffee Shop")
- Il bugiardo ("The Liar")
- I pettegolezzi delle donne ("Women's Gossip")
- Il teatro comico ("The comic theatre")
- Il vero amico ("The True Friend")
- Agustín Montiano y Luyando – Virginia
- William Shirley – Edward the Black Prince
- Voltaire – Oreste
- William Whitehead – The Roman Father
Poetry
- William Collins – The Passions
- Thomas Cooke – An Ode on Martial Virtue
- Robert Dodsley – The Oeconomy of Human Life
- Mary Jones – Miscellanies
- Thomas Warton – The Triumph of Isis
- Edward Young – The Complaint (aka Night Thoughts)
Non-fiction
- William Blackstone – An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity
- John Campbell – The Present State of Europe
- Zachary Grey – A Free and Familiar Letter to William Warburton
- Eliza Haywood – A Present for Women Addicted to Drinking (on the Gin crisis)
- Francis Hutcheson – Reflections Upon Laughter (philosophy of humor)
- Agustín Montiano y Luyando – Discurso sobre las tragedias españolas
- Laurence Sterne – The Abuses of Conscience
- Madeleine de Puisieux – La Femme n’est pas inférieure à l'homme (Woman is not inferior to man)
Births
- January 7 – Robert Anderson, Scottish critic (died 1803)
- June 13 – James Burney, English rear-admiral and naval writer (died 1821)
- September 5 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet writing in Braid Scots (died 1774)
- Unknown date – Henrietta Maria Bowdler, English author and expurgator (died 1830)
Deaths
- February – Aaron Hill, English dramatist (born 1685)
- June 15 – Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (born 1684)
- November 11 – Apostolo Zeno, Venetian poet and journalist (born 1668)
- November 18 – Susanna Highmore, English poet (born 1690)
