1741 in literature
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The year 1741 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- David Garrick packs theatres with his performance as Shakespeare's Richard III.
- The American Magazine begins publication by Andrew Bedford.
[edit] New books
- Anonymous
- The Life of Pamela (parody of Richardson's Pamela)
- Pamela Censured
- Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer (new edition revives interest in Chaucer's tales)
- Stephen Duck - Every Man in his Own Way
- Henry Fielding (as "Mr. Conny Keyber") - An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
- Eliza Haywood - The Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected
- Ludvig Holberg - Niels Klim's Underground Travels
- John Kelly - Pamela's Conduct in High Life (continuation of Pamela)
- Robert Craggs Nugent - An Ode to Mankind
- Alexander Pope with John Gay and John Arbuthnot - Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
- Charles Povey - The Virgin in Eden (prose fiction)
- Samuel Richardson
- Letters Written to and for Particular Friends (aka "Familiar Letters")
- Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded vols. iii - iv
- John and Charles Wesley - A Collection of Psalms and Hymns
- Hristofor Zhefarovich - Stemmatographia
[edit] New drama
- Anonymous - Pamela; or, Virtue Triumphant
- Robert Dodsley - The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (adapted from the anonymous Elizabethan play)
- David Garrick - The Lying Valet
- John Kelly - The Levee
- Voltaire - Mahomet (first performed)
[edit] Poetry
- William Shenstone - The Judgment of Hercules
- Edward Young - Poetical Works of the Reverend Edward Young
[edit] Non-fiction
- Thomas Betterton - The History of the English Stage, from the Restoration to the Present
- Thomas Francklin - Of the Nature of the Gods
- David Hume - Essays Moral and Political
- Jonathan Swift
- Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence (pirate publication by Edmund Curll, for which he was sued by Pope)
- Some Free Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs
- Isaac Watts - The Improvement of the Mind
- Leonard Welsted - The Summum Bonum
- George Whitefield - A Letter to the Reverend John Wesley
[edit] Births
- January 16 - Hester Thrale, friend and correspondent of Samuel Johnson (died 1821)
- August 25 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, theologian (died 1792)
- October 4 - Edmond Malone, Shakespearean editor (died 1812)
- October 18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French novelist (died 1803)
- October 24 - Johann August von Starck, controversial theologian and political writer (died 1816)
[edit] Deaths
- February 21 - Jethro Tull, inventor and agricultural writer (born 1674)
- March 17 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, poet (born 1671)
- April 10 - Celia Fiennes, travel writer (born 1662)
- December 14 - Charles Rollin, historian (born 1661)
- December 21 - Bernard de Montfaucon, antiquary
- date unknown - Thomas Emlyn, preacher and writer
