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1776 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1776. Events *January 8 – The English actor John Philip Kemble makes his stage début, as ''Theodosius'' in Nathaniel Lee's eponymous tragedy, at Wolverhampton, England, with the Crump and Chamberlain company. *August 7 – David Hume, weeks before his death, adds a codicil to his will, giving instructions for the publication of the ''Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'', on which he has been working since 1750. *''unknown dates'' – The Wenyuan Chamber is built in China as an imperial library in the Forbidden City of Beijing. New books Fiction * Elizabeth Griffith – ''The Story of Lady Juliana Harley'' *Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi – ''Edward Allwill's Briefsammlung'' *Ignacy Krasicki – The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki) (first novel in Polish) *Samuel Jackson Pratt (as Courtney Melmoth) – ''The Pupil of Pleasure, or, The New System (Lord Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Ramsay - David Hume, 1711 - 1776
Allan may refer to: People * Allan (name), a given name and surname, including list of people and characters with this name * Allan (footballer, born 1984) (Allan Barreto da Silva), Brazilian football striker * Allan (footballer, born 1989) (Allan dos Santos Natividade), Brazilian football forward * Allan (footballer, born 1991) (Allan Marques Loureiro), Brazilian football midfielder * Allan (footballer, born 1994) (Allan Christian de Almeida), Brazilian football midfielder * Allan (footballer, born 1997) (Allan Rodrigues de Souza), Brazilian football midfielder Places * Allan, Queensland, Australia * Allan, Saskatchewan, Canada * Allan, the Allaine river's lower course, in France * Allan, Drôme, town in France * Allan, Iran (other), places in Iran Other uses * Allan, a Clan Grant split (or sept) * Ahlawat or Allan, an ethnic clan in India * ''Allan'', a 1966 film directed by Donald Shebib * "Allan" (song), a 1988 song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Edward Ayscough
George Edward Ayscough (died 14 October 1779) was an English dramatist and traveller. Life Ayscough was the son of Dr. Francis Ayscough, dean of Bristol, by a sister of the first Lord Lyttelton. For some time he held a commission in the Guards. In 1776, he produced at Drury Lane Theatre a play, a version of the ''Semiramis'' of Voltaire, Richard Yates representing the chief character; an epilogue was provided by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The tragedy had eleven representations, and the English author enjoyed three benefits on account of it. On the first performance Captain Ayscough's brother officers attended in great force and secured the success of ''Semiramis''. In the ''Biographia Dramatica Isaac Reed (1 January 1742 – 5 January 1807) was an English Shakespearean editor. Biography The son of a baker, he was born in London. He was articled to a solicitor, and eventually set up as a conveyancer at Staple Inn, where he had a large p ...'', Ayscough is described as "a fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lope De Vega
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio ( , ; 25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature. His reputation in the world of Spanish literature is second only to that of Miguel de Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequalled, making him one of the most prolific authors in the history of literature. He was nicknamed "The Phoenix of Wits" and "Monster of Nature" (in es , Fénix de los Ingenios , links=no, ) by Cervantes because of his prolific nature. Lope de Vega renewed the Spanish theatre at a time when it was starting to become a mass cultural phenomenon. He defined its key characteristics, and along with Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina, took Spanish Baroque theatre to its greatest heights. Because of the insight, depth and ease of his plays, he is regarded as one of the greatest dramatists in Western literature, his plays still being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Leopold Wagner
Heinrich Leopold Wagner (19 February 1747 – 4 March 1779) was a German dramatist. Wagner was born in Strasbourg and is chiefly known for his 1776 tragedy '' The Child Murderess''. He died, aged 32, in Frankfurt. Works * ''Prometheus, Deukalion und seine Rezensenten'', 1775 * ''Der wohltätige Unbekannte'', 1775 * ''Die Reue nach der Tat'', 1775 * ''Neuer Versuch über die Schauspielkunst'', 1776, a translation of Louis-Sébastien Mercier Louis-Sébastien Mercier (6 June 1740 – 25 April 1814) was a French dramatist and writer, whose 1771 novel ''L'An 2440'' is an example of proto-science fiction. Early life and education He was born in Paris to a humble family: his father was a ...'s ''Du Théâtre ou nouvel essai sur l'art dramatique'' * ''Leben und Tod Sebastian Silligs'' * ''Die Kindermörderin'', 1776 * ''Briefe, die Seylersche Gesellschaft betreffend'', 1777 * ''Evchen Humbrecht oder Ihr Mütter merkts Euch!'', 1778, a reworking of ''Die Kindermörderin'' 1747 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Weeks After Marriage
''Three Weeks after Marriage'' is a comedy play by the Irish writer Arthur Murphy. An afterpiece, it premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 30 March 1776. It was a reworking of an earlier play ''What We Must All Come To'' which was staged in 1764, which had a poor reception. The cast included William Thomas Lewis as Sir Charles Racket, John Quick as Drugget, Isabella Mattocks as Lady Racket, Ann Pitt as Mrs Drugget and Jane Green as Dimity. The entire play takes place at a country house about four miles outside London. It was met "with great applause" and became a standard work, being played every year for the remainder of the century. It's performances continued well into the nineteenth century. The role of Lady Racket later became a signature for Frances Abington, and was also played by Dorothea Jordan Dorothea Jordan, née Bland (21 November 17615 July 1816), was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan. She was the long-time mistress of Princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Murphy (writer)
Arthur Murphy (27 December 1727 – 18 June 1805), also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer. Biography Murphy was born at Cloonyquin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French. He studied at the Jesuit-run College of Saint-Omer, France, and was a gifted student of the Latin and Greek classics. He worked as an actor in the theatre, became a barrister, a journalist and finally a (not very original) playwright. He edited '' Gray's Inn Journal'' between 1752 and 1754. As Henry Thrale's oldest and dearest friend, he introduced Samuel Johnson to the Thrales in January 1765. He was appointed Commissioner of Bankruptcy in 1803. Murphy is known for his translations of Tacitus in 1753. They were still published in 1922. He wrote also three biographies: his 1792 '' An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson'', his 1762 '' Fielding's Works'' and his 1801 ''Life of David Garrick''. Murphy is thought to have coined the legal ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Soldiers (play)
''The Soldiers'' (German: Die Soldaten) is a 1776 Tragicomedy play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. The play was influenced by the works of William Shakespeare and can be attributed to the Sturm und Drang literary movement. The events of the play take place in "French Flanders" and centre around a girl who courts an officer. After he breaks off their relationship, she is branded as a whore by society. Plot Marie Wesener, the daughter of a merchant, begins a romantic relationship with the young Officer Desportes, despite being engaged to a cloth dealer called Stolzius. Marie's father initially objects to this relationship, until he realises that Marie's affair with the officer opens up opportunities for social advancement. Thus, he helps Marie to break her engagement with Stolzius by means of a letter, However, Marie's relationship with the young officer is only a short affair. Another soldier named Mary, a friend of Desportes, starts courting Marie soon after. Marie meets the y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (23 January 1751, or 12 January in the Julian calendar – 4 June 1792, or 24 May in the Julian calendar) was a Baltic German writer of the ''Sturm und Drang'' movement. Life Lenz was born in Sesswegen (Cesvaine), Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, now Latvia, the son of the pietistic minister Christian David Lenz (1720–1798), later General Superintendent of Livonia. When Lenz was nine, in 1760, the family moved to Dorpat, now Tartu, where his father had been offered a minister's post. His first published poem appeared when he was 15. From 1768 to 1770 he studied theology on a scholarship, first at Dorpat and then at Königsberg. While there, he attended lectures by Immanuel Kant, who encouraged him to read Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He began increasingly to follow his literary interests and to neglect theology. His first independent publication, the long poem ''Die Landplagen'' (''"Torments of the Land"'') appeared in 1769. He also studied music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Of Taranto
''Julius of Taranto'', also known as ''Julius of Tarent'' (german: Julius von Tarent), is a dramatic tragedy by Johann Anton Leisewitz. Published in 1774, it is a notable work of the Sturm und Drang era. The play was a favourite of Friedrich Schiller and much acted in Germany. Its central theme is the struggle between the two princes Julius and Guido of Taranto (Tarent in German) for the affections of commoner Blanca. Like in Klinger's ''Die Zwillinge'', "a dynamic but frustrated man of action," Guido, "is opposed to a more pacific, melancholy figure," Julius. The ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' describes the play as the forerunner of Friedrich Schiller's famous Sturm und Drang masterpiece ''The Robbers'' (1781). '' |
Johann Anton Leisewitz
Johann Anton Leisewitz (born 9 May 1752 in Hanover, died 10 September 1806 in Braunschweig) was a German lawyer and dramatic poet, and a central figure of the Sturm und Drang era. He is best known for his play ''Julius of Taranto'' (1776), that inspired Friedrich Schiller and is considered the forerunner of Schiller's quintessential Sturm und Drang work ''The Robbers'' (1781). Biography He went to Göttingen in 1770, and became a member of the circle of poets called Der Hainbund, which included Stolberg and Voss, and contributed two poems to the ''Göttinger Musenalmanach'' for 1775, both essentially dramatic and democratic in tone. In 1775, at Brunswick, and later at Berlin and Weimar, he met and soon counted among his friends Eschenburg, Moses Mendelssohn, Lessing, Nicolai, Herder, and Goethe. His single complete play, ''Julius of Taranto'' (1776), was written in Lessing's style and with much of the latter's dramatic technique. The play was a favorite of Friedrich Schiller, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturm Und Drang (play)
''Sturm und Drang'' is a play in five acts by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, which gave its name to the artistic period known as Sturm und Drang. The play was first performed in Leipzig on 1 April 1777 by Abel Seyler's theatre company, where Klinger then was employed as a playwright. The play's original title was ''Wirrwarr''; it was changed to ''Sturm und Drang'' before premiering. Background In the autumn of 1776 Klinger wrote a comedy titled simply ''Wirrwarr'' ("confusion", "hubbub"). At that time he was already a well-known playwright; the year before, he had won a prize of 20 Louis d'or from the Ackermannschen Theatertruppe for his tragedy ''Die Zwillinge'' (de). Klinger had followed Goethe to Weimar. Christoph Kaufmann (de) suggested the title ''Sturm und Drang'' ("storm and urge", "storm and stress") in a letter to Klinger. The piece was created in the year that is commonly seen as the high-water-mark of the Sturm und Drang movement. Klinger brought the piece with him when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (17 February 1752 – 9 March 1831) was a German dramatist and novelist. His play ''Sturm und Drang'' (1776) gave its name to the Sturm und Drang artistic epoch. He was a childhood friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and is often closely associated with Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Klinger worked as a playwright for the ''Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft'' for two years, but eventually left the Kingdom of Prussia to become a General in the Imperial Russian Army. Biography One of the few eighteenth-century authors from the lower social class, Klinger was born in Frankfurt am Main. His father, Johannes Klinger (1719–1760), was a town constable in Frankfurt who came from Pfaffen-Beerfurth in the Odenwald where he was born as the son of the mill owner, blacksmith and schoolmaster Johannes Klinger (1671–1743), who was married to Anna Barabra Boßler (1674–1747) since January 17, 1695. His father died when Klinger was eight years old, forcin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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