1733 in literature

1733 in literature

The year 1733 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Antoine François Prévost (Abbé Prévost) arrives in London, where he will edit "Le Pour et centre".
* Voltaire begins his relationship with Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet.
* Laurence Sterne enters Jesus College, Cambridge.
* "Romeo and Juliet" becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed in America.
* Charles Macklin makes his debut at Drury Lane Theatre in "The Recruiting Officer".

New books

* Anonymous - "Verses Address'd to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace" (attrib. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu) (to Pope, below)
*George Berkeley - "The Theory of Vision"
*Samuel Bowden - "Poetical Essays"
*James Bramston - "The Man of Taste" (answer to Pope from 1732)
*John Durant Breval as "Joseph Gay" - "Morality in Vice" (part of Curll's continuing war with John Gay)
*Peter Browne - "Things Supernatural and Divine Conceived by Analogy with things Natural and Human"
*Mary Chandler - "A Description of Bath"
*Richard Graves - "The Spiritual Quixote"
*James Hammond - "An Elegy to a Young Lady"
*John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey - "An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity"
*George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - "Advice to a Lady"
*Samuel Madden - "Memoirs of the Twentieth Century" (a roman á clef about George II)
*David Mallet - "Of Verbal Criticism" (to Pope)
*Thomas Newcomb - "The Woman of Taste" (reaction to Pope's "Epistle" of 1732)
*Alexander Pope
**"Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (3) "Society" (continuation of "Essay on Man"; the first two "epistles" were published in 1732 & the fourth in 1744)
**"Of the Use of Riches: An Epistle to Lord Bathurst" (aka the "Epistle to Bathurst")
**"The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace"
**"The Impertinent"
* Elizabeth Rowe - "Letters Moral and Entertaining"
* Jonathan Swift
**"On Poetry, a Rhapsody" (contained explicit attacks on George II, as well as many of the , resulting in arrests and prosecution.)
**"The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift"
*Voltaire - "Letters Concerning the English Nation"
*Isaac Watts - "Philosophical Essays"

New drama

*John Durant Breval - "The Rape of Helen" (printed 1737)
*Charles Coffey - "The Boarding School" (performed and published)
*Henry Fielding - "The Miser" (from Molière)
*John Gay - "Achilles" (opera) (posth.)
*Eliza Haywood - "The Opera of Operas" (adapt. of Fielding's "Tom Thumb," with a pro-Walpole "reconciliation" scene) (opera)
* John Kelly - "Timon in Love"
* Edward Phillips
**"The Livery Rake"
**"The Mock Lawyer"
**"The Stage Mutineers"
*António José da Silva - "Vida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Pança"
*Lewis Theobald (ed.) - "The Works of Shakespeare"

Poetry

*John Banks - "Poems on Several Occasions"
*Thomas Fitzgerald - "Poems"
*Matthew Green as "Peter Drake" - "The Grotto"
*Mary Masters - "Poems"
*"See also 1733 in poetry"

Births

* January 12 - Antoine-Marin Lemierre, French poet and dramatist (died 1793)
* March 13 - Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (died 1804)
*March 18 - Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, critic and bookseller (died 1811)
*August 22 - Jean-François Ducis, dramatist (died 1816)
*September 5 - Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet (died 1813)
*"date unknown" - Robert Lloyd, poet and satirist (died 1764)

Deaths

*January 19 - Bernard de Mandeville, satirist and philosopher (born 1670)
*March 12 - Michel Le Quien, theologian and historian (born 1661)
*March 13 - Mademoiselle Aïssé, letter-writer (born c.1694)
*June 23 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, scholar (born 1672)
*August 16 - Matthew Tindal, deist writer (born 1657)
*"date unknown"
**John Dunton, writer and booksseller (born 1659)
**Bernard de Mandeville, philosopher (born 1670)


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