Timeline Of Twentieth-century Theatre

	Timeline Of Twentieth-century Theatre The following timeline of twentieth-century theatre offers a year-by-year account of the performance and publication of notable works of drama and significant events in the history of theatre during the 20th century. Musical theatre works are excluded from the list below. __NOTOC__ 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 References {{DEFAULTSORT:20th Century Theatre Timeline * Timeline A timeline is a display of a list of events in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's '' Poetics'' (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or " act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''play'' or ''game'' (translating the Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a ''play-maker'' rather than a ''dramatist'' and the building was a ''play-house'' r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1913 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1913. Events January – Acmeist poetry, with roots back to 1909 in literature, 1909, is officially born as a reaction to Russian Futurism. Manifestos are printed in the journal ''Apollon'' by Nikolay Gumilyov and Sergey Gorodetsky, with illustrative works by both, and by Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Narbut, and Osip Mandelstam — the last with "Hagia Sophia". January 1 – The German National Library is founded in Leipzig. January 8 – Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London, which becomes a noted literary meeting-place. January 24 – Franz Kafka stops working on his novel ''Amerika'', which he never finishes. March 24 – New Broadway theatre Palace Theatre (New York City), Palace Theatre opens at 1564 Broadway (at West 47th Street) in midtown Manhattan, New York City. April 5 – Serialization of the adventures of Gaston Leroux's character :fr:Chéri-Bibi, Chéri-Bibi begins in Le Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1926 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1926. Events February 8 – Seán O'Casey's play ''The Plough and the Stars'' opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. At the February 11 performance there is a near-riot: one audience member strikes an actress. February 12 – The Irish Free State Minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints a Committee on Evil Literature. * February 26 – The future English novelist Graham Greene is received into the Catholic Church. April 1 – Hugo Gernsback launches his pioneering science fiction magazine ''Amazing Stories'' in the United States. May 11 – C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien first meet in Oxford. October 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov's novel ''The White Guard'' (Белая гвардия), partly serialized in ''Rossiya'' before the magazine's suppression earlier in the year, opens as a dramatic adaptation, ''The Days of the Turbins'', at the Moscow Art Theatre. It is enjoyed by Stalin. October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1925 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1925. Events * February 21 – The first issue of ''The New Yorker'' magazine is published by Harold Ross. * February 28 – The first story under the name B. Traven (identified variously as actor Ret Marut or Otto Feige) is published, in ''Vorwärts'' (Berlin). * April – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar, rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, after the April 10 publication of Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby'' and before Hemingway departs on a trip to Spain that he will fictionalize in ''The Sun Also Rises''. * May 14 – Virginia Woolf's novel ''Mrs Dalloway'' is published by the Hogarth Press in Bloomsbury, London. Woolf is beginning work on ''To the Lighthouse''. * May 20 – C. S. Lewis is elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he tutors in English language and literature until 1954. * Summer – Samuel Beckett plays in the first of two fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1924 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1924. Events January Writer Miguel de Unamuno is dismissed for the first time from his university posts by the Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera and goes into exile on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster establish the New York City publisher Simon & Schuster, which initially specializes in crossword puzzle books. January 15 – The world's first radio play, ''Danger'' by Richard Hughes, is broadcast by the B.B.C. from its London studios. February 2 – A largely rewritten version of Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett's 1914 farce '' It Pays to Advertise'' opens in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls, at the Aldwych Theatre in London. It runs until 10 July 1925, a total of 598 performances, as the first in a sequence of twelve Aldwych farces. March 3 – Seán O'Casey's drama '' Juno and the Paycock'' opens at the Abb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1923 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1923. For works published in the United States, this year is also significant because from January 1, 2019, these were the first in 20 years to enter the public domain. They were originally to do so in 1999, but the U.S. Congress extended the length of copyright by twenty years. Events January A copy of James Joyce's 1922 novel ''Ulysses'' posted to a London bookseller by the proprietor of Davy Byrne's pub in Dublin, which features in the book, is detained as obscene by the U.K. authorities. T. E. Lawrence is forced to leave the British Royal Air Force, his alias as 352087 Aircraftman John Hume Ross having been exposed. He joins the Royal Tank Corps as 7875698 Private T. E. Shaw. February 5 – Poet and super-tramp W. H. Davies marries Helen Payne, an ex-prostitute thirty years his junior, at East Grinstead in England. March – The first issue of the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' appears i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1922 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1922. Under modern copyright law of the United States, all works published before January 1, 1923, with a proper copyright notice entered the public domain in the United States no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier entered the public domain in the United States in 1998. Events This is a significant year for high modernism in English literature. January – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's modernist short story "In a Grove" (藪の中, ''Yabu no naka'') is published in the Japanese magazine ''Shinchō''. January 24 – '' Façade – An Entertainment'', poems by Edith Sitwell recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton, are first performed, privately in London. * January 27 – Franz Kafka begins intensive work on his novel ''The Castle (Das Schloss)'' at the mountain resort of Spindlermühle, ceasing around early September in mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1921 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1921. Events January 1 – The publishing firm Jonathan Cape is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard. February – Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of ''The Little Review'', are convicted of obscenity in a New York court for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce's ''Ulysses''. March – Jorge Luis Borges returns to his native Buenos Aires in Argentina after a period living with his family in Europe. April 20 – The Hungarian Ferenc Molnár's play ''Liliom'' is first produced on Broadway in English. May 9 – The première of Luigi Pirandello's ''Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore)'' at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience. May – A production of ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre'' directed by Robert Atkins at The Old Vic, London, restores the unexpurgated text for the first time since Sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1920 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1920. Events February 2 – '' Beyond the Horizon'', Eugene O'Neill's second full-length play, opens with a Morosco Theatre matinée in New York City, partly as a producer's experiment and partly to quiet the actor Richard Bennett, who sought to play the lead. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill gains fame. February 27 – An inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club is arranged by Mary MacCarthy in London. Spring – The poet Anton Podbevšek and others organize the Novo Mesto Spring (''Novomeška pomlad'') event, the beginning of Slovenian Modernism. March 15 – '' The Blue Flame'', a four-act play by George V. Hobart and John Willard after Leta Vance Nicholson, opens at the Shubert Theatre (New York City) on Broadway before a year's U.S. tour. Though described by a critic as "one of the worst plays ever written," it is a commercial success, largely due to Theda Bara as the ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1919 In Literature Events from the year 1919 in literature . Events February – Richmal Crompton's anarchic English schoolboy William Brown is introduced in the first published ''Just William'' story, "Rice-Mould", in ''Home'' magazine. March 1 – October 15 – Publication runs of the American pulp magazine ''The Thrill Book'' are oriented towards the fantasy genre or science fiction. It includes the serialization of ''The Heads of Cerberus'', written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett as Francis Stevens, with its early thematic use of an alternate time-track, or parallel worlds. March – The diaries up to the end of 1917 from the English naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion (Bruce Frederick Cummings) are published as '' The Journal of a Disappointed Man'' in London by Chatto & Windus. This treats his resignation to the disease multiple sclerosis, of which he will die on October 22, aged 30, at Gerrards Cross. March 28 – Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in an exhibition of the New York Societ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1918 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1918. Events January 1 – The English novelist and wartime propagandist Hall Caine is made a Knight of the KBE. January 2 – The English novelist Marie Corelli is convicted under wartime legislation against hoarding food. January 18 – The first edition of '' Aussie: The Australian Soldiers' Magazine'' appears. January 23 – The English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. The wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, whose first nationally published poem appears three days later ("Miners" in ''The Nation''). He will be killed by the end of the year. March The Telemachus episode in James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' is published in serialized form in the U.S. journal ''The Little Review''. The English novelist Alec Waugh is taken prisoner of war. He will be incarcerated in Mainz Citadel with the monologist J. Milton Hayes, also taken prisoner this year, and Hugh Kings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1917 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1917. Events January Francis Picabia produces the first issue of the Dada periodical ''391'' in Barcelona. Philosopher Hu Shih, the main advocate of replacing scholarly language with the vernacular in Chinese literature, publishes an article in the magazine ''New Youth (Xin Qingnian)'', "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", offering eight guidelines for writers. J. R. R. Tolkien, on medical leave from the British Army at Great Haywood, begins ''The Book of Lost Tales'' (the first version of ''The Silmarillion''), starting with the "Fall of Gondolin". This first chronicles Tolkien's mythopoeic Middle-earth ''legendarium'' in prose. February 4 or 5 – The English writer Hugh Kingsmill is captured in action in France. February 16 – The publisher Boni & Liveright is founded in New York City by Horace Liveright with Albert Boni, and initiates the " Modern Library" imprint. Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Timeline Of Twentieth-century Theatre The following timeline of twentieth-century theatre offers a year-by-year account of the performance and publication of notable works of drama and significant events in the history of theatre during the 20th century. Musical theatre works are excluded from the list below. __NOTOC__ 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 References {{DEFAULTSORT:20th Century Theatre Timeline * Timeline A timeline is a display of a list of events in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's '' Poetics'' (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or " act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''play'' or ''game'' (translating the Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a ''play-maker'' rather than a ''dramatist'' and the building was a ''play-house'' r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1913 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1913. Events January – Acmeist poetry, with roots back to 1909 in literature, 1909, is officially born as a reaction to Russian Futurism. Manifestos are printed in the journal ''Apollon'' by Nikolay Gumilyov and Sergey Gorodetsky, with illustrative works by both, and by Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Narbut, and Osip Mandelstam — the last with "Hagia Sophia". January 1 – The German National Library is founded in Leipzig. January 8 – Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London, which becomes a noted literary meeting-place. January 24 – Franz Kafka stops working on his novel ''Amerika'', which he never finishes. March 24 – New Broadway theatre Palace Theatre (New York City), Palace Theatre opens at 1564 Broadway (at West 47th Street) in midtown Manhattan, New York City. April 5 – Serialization of the adventures of Gaston Leroux's character :fr:Chéri-Bibi, Chéri-Bibi begins in Le Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1926 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1926. Events February 8 – Seán O'Casey's play ''The Plough and the Stars'' opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. At the February 11 performance there is a near-riot: one audience member strikes an actress. February 12 – The Irish Free State Minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints a Committee on Evil Literature. * February 26 – The future English novelist Graham Greene is received into the Catholic Church. April 1 – Hugo Gernsback launches his pioneering science fiction magazine ''Amazing Stories'' in the United States. May 11 – C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien first meet in Oxford. October 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov's novel ''The White Guard'' (Белая гвардия), partly serialized in ''Rossiya'' before the magazine's suppression earlier in the year, opens as a dramatic adaptation, ''The Days of the Turbins'', at the Moscow Art Theatre. It is enjoyed by Stalin. October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1925 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1925. Events * February 21 – The first issue of ''The New Yorker'' magazine is published by Harold Ross. * February 28 – The first story under the name B. Traven (identified variously as actor Ret Marut or Otto Feige) is published, in ''Vorwärts'' (Berlin). * April – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar, rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, after the April 10 publication of Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby'' and before Hemingway departs on a trip to Spain that he will fictionalize in ''The Sun Also Rises''. * May 14 – Virginia Woolf's novel ''Mrs Dalloway'' is published by the Hogarth Press in Bloomsbury, London. Woolf is beginning work on ''To the Lighthouse''. * May 20 – C. S. Lewis is elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he tutors in English language and literature until 1954. * Summer – Samuel Beckett plays in the first of two fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1924 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1924. Events January Writer Miguel de Unamuno is dismissed for the first time from his university posts by the Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera and goes into exile on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster establish the New York City publisher Simon & Schuster, which initially specializes in crossword puzzle books. January 15 – The world's first radio play, ''Danger'' by Richard Hughes, is broadcast by the B.B.C. from its London studios. February 2 – A largely rewritten version of Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett's 1914 farce '' It Pays to Advertise'' opens in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls, at the Aldwych Theatre in London. It runs until 10 July 1925, a total of 598 performances, as the first in a sequence of twelve Aldwych farces. March 3 – Seán O'Casey's drama '' Juno and the Paycock'' opens at the Abb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1923 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1923. For works published in the United States, this year is also significant because from January 1, 2019, these were the first in 20 years to enter the public domain. They were originally to do so in 1999, but the U.S. Congress extended the length of copyright by twenty years. Events January A copy of James Joyce's 1922 novel ''Ulysses'' posted to a London bookseller by the proprietor of Davy Byrne's pub in Dublin, which features in the book, is detained as obscene by the U.K. authorities. T. E. Lawrence is forced to leave the British Royal Air Force, his alias as 352087 Aircraftman John Hume Ross having been exposed. He joins the Royal Tank Corps as 7875698 Private T. E. Shaw. February 5 – Poet and super-tramp W. H. Davies marries Helen Payne, an ex-prostitute thirty years his junior, at East Grinstead in England. March – The first issue of the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' appears i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1922 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1922. Under modern copyright law of the United States, all works published before January 1, 1923, with a proper copyright notice entered the public domain in the United States no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier entered the public domain in the United States in 1998. Events This is a significant year for high modernism in English literature. January – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's modernist short story "In a Grove" (藪の中, ''Yabu no naka'') is published in the Japanese magazine ''Shinchō''. January 24 – '' Façade – An Entertainment'', poems by Edith Sitwell recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton, are first performed, privately in London. * January 27 – Franz Kafka begins intensive work on his novel ''The Castle (Das Schloss)'' at the mountain resort of Spindlermühle, ceasing around early September in mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1921 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1921. Events January 1 – The publishing firm Jonathan Cape is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard. February – Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of ''The Little Review'', are convicted of obscenity in a New York court for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce's ''Ulysses''. March – Jorge Luis Borges returns to his native Buenos Aires in Argentina after a period living with his family in Europe. April 20 – The Hungarian Ferenc Molnár's play ''Liliom'' is first produced on Broadway in English. May 9 – The première of Luigi Pirandello's ''Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore)'' at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience. May – A production of ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre'' directed by Robert Atkins at The Old Vic, London, restores the unexpurgated text for the first time since Sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1920 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1920. Events February 2 – '' Beyond the Horizon'', Eugene O'Neill's second full-length play, opens with a Morosco Theatre matinée in New York City, partly as a producer's experiment and partly to quiet the actor Richard Bennett, who sought to play the lead. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill gains fame. February 27 – An inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club is arranged by Mary MacCarthy in London. Spring – The poet Anton Podbevšek and others organize the Novo Mesto Spring (''Novomeška pomlad'') event, the beginning of Slovenian Modernism. March 15 – '' The Blue Flame'', a four-act play by George V. Hobart and John Willard after Leta Vance Nicholson, opens at the Shubert Theatre (New York City) on Broadway before a year's U.S. tour. Though described by a critic as "one of the worst plays ever written," it is a commercial success, largely due to Theda Bara as the ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1919 In Literature Events from the year 1919 in literature . Events February – Richmal Crompton's anarchic English schoolboy William Brown is introduced in the first published ''Just William'' story, "Rice-Mould", in ''Home'' magazine. March 1 – October 15 – Publication runs of the American pulp magazine ''The Thrill Book'' are oriented towards the fantasy genre or science fiction. It includes the serialization of ''The Heads of Cerberus'', written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett as Francis Stevens, with its early thematic use of an alternate time-track, or parallel worlds. March – The diaries up to the end of 1917 from the English naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion (Bruce Frederick Cummings) are published as '' The Journal of a Disappointed Man'' in London by Chatto & Windus. This treats his resignation to the disease multiple sclerosis, of which he will die on October 22, aged 30, at Gerrards Cross. March 28 – Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in an exhibition of the New York Societ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1918 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1918. Events January 1 – The English novelist and wartime propagandist Hall Caine is made a Knight of the KBE. January 2 – The English novelist Marie Corelli is convicted under wartime legislation against hoarding food. January 18 – The first edition of '' Aussie: The Australian Soldiers' Magazine'' appears. January 23 – The English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. The wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, whose first nationally published poem appears three days later ("Miners" in ''The Nation''). He will be killed by the end of the year. March The Telemachus episode in James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' is published in serialized form in the U.S. journal ''The Little Review''. The English novelist Alec Waugh is taken prisoner of war. He will be incarcerated in Mainz Citadel with the monologist J. Milton Hayes, also taken prisoner this year, and Hugh Kings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1917 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1917. Events January Francis Picabia produces the first issue of the Dada periodical ''391'' in Barcelona. Philosopher Hu Shih, the main advocate of replacing scholarly language with the vernacular in Chinese literature, publishes an article in the magazine ''New Youth (Xin Qingnian)'', "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", offering eight guidelines for writers. J. R. R. Tolkien, on medical leave from the British Army at Great Haywood, begins ''The Book of Lost Tales'' (the first version of ''The Silmarillion''), starting with the "Fall of Gondolin". This first chronicles Tolkien's mythopoeic Middle-earth ''legendarium'' in prose. February 4 or 5 – The English writer Hugh Kingsmill is captured in action in France. February 16 – The publisher Boni & Liveright is founded in New York City by Horace Liveright with Albert Boni, and initiates the " Modern Library" imprint. Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]