1786 in literature

1786 in literature

Events

*January 19 - Franziska Stading plays the female lead in "Gustav Vasa" at the Royal Swedish Opera.
* "The Story of the Learned Pig" (anonymous) is one of the first books to cast doubt on the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays.

New books

*William Thomas Beckford - "Vathek"
*James Boswell - "Dorado, a Spanish Tale" (published anonymously)
*"The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen", translated from the German by G. A. Bürger
*Harriet Lee - "The Errors of Innocence"

New drama

*John Burgoyne - "The Heiress"
*Elizabeth Inchbald – "The Widow’s Vow"

Poetry

*Robert Burns - "Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect"

Non-fiction

*Hester Thrale - "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson"

Births

* February 3 - Wilhelm Gesenius
* February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm
* August 25 - James Silk Buckingham

Deaths

* November 25 - Richard Glover
* December 26 - Gasparo Gozzi


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