00s
| 0 Congreve The Way of the World c. George Farquhar The
Constant Coouple, or A Trip to the Jubilee c. Kabuki Thtr in Japan |
1 Daniel Defoe The True-Born Englishman s. G Farquhar Sir
Harry Wildair c. Sir Richard Steele The Funeral, or Grief a la Mode c. |
| 2 Farquhar The Twin Rivals c. pantomine at Drury Lane Edwaard Busshe
The Art of English Poetry |
3 Richard Steele The Lying Lover c. John Adair Description of
the Sea Coasts & Islands off Scotland |
| 4 Farquhar The Stage Coach c Jean-Francois Regnard Les Folies amoureuses
c Swift A Tale of a Tub Wycherley Miscellany Poems |
5 Cibber The Careless Husband Sir Richard Steele The Tender
Husband c Sir John Vanbrugh The Confederacy c |
| 6 Defoe The Apparition of One Mrs Veal Farquhar The
Recruiting Officer Vanbrugh The Mistake c. Watts Horae
Lyricae |
7 Farquhar The Beaux Strategem c. & dies Alain Rene Lesage Le
Diable boiteux |
| 8 Jean-Francois Regnard Le Legataire universal c |
9 Alain Rene Lesage Turcaret, ou Le financier c Alexander Pope Pastorals
1st issue of Steele's & Addison's The Tatler |
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10s
| 10 1st issue of The Examiner literary
periodical 1st appearance of comedy character Hanswurst in Vienna |
11 Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon Rhadamiste et
Zenobie t Addison & Steele begin The Spectator J Swift
The Conduct of the Allies A Pope Essay on Criticism
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| 12 A Pope The Rape of the Lock Swift A
Proposal for Correcting the English Language |
13 Addison Cato t A Pope Ode on St.
Cedilia's Day Swift, Pope, Congreve & others found Scriblerus
Club |
| 14 John Gay The Shepherd's Week p Rowe's
Stage Edition of Shakespeare 9vols. |
15 Gian Vincenzo Gravina Della tragedia Lesage
Gil Blas de Santilane Matthew Prior Solomon, or The Vanity of the World
p |
16 da Silva edits Fenix Renascida Port
poetry anthology 1st Eng acting com. in America Wllmsbrg
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17 Adrienne Lecouvreur acts 1st in Crebillon's Electre
at the Comedie francaise |
| 18 Cibber The Non-Juror c.Voltaire
Edipe t. in Bastille |
19 Defoe Robinson Crusoe D'Urfey Wit
& Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melanchly Holberg Pedar Paars
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20s
| 20 Defoe Memories
of a Cavalier John Gay Collected Poems |
21 Pierre de Marivaux Arlequin poli par l'amour c. Montesquieu
Lettres persanes n. |
| 22 Defoe Moll Flanders Richard Steele The Conscious Lovers c.
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23 John Thurmond Harlequin Dr. Faustus pantomine Voltaire
E |
| 24 Defoe Roxana Oldest Eng Publishing House Longman's founded |
25 Allan Ramsay The Gentle Shepherd A Pope transl Homer's
The Oddessy |
| 26 Defoe The Four Voyages if Capt George Roberts Jonathan Swift Gulliver's
Travel's |
27 John Gay The Fables Moses Luzzatto Migda Oz |
| 28 Henry Fielding Love in Several Masques c. Richard Savage
The Bastard Allan Ramsay Poems A Pope The
Dunciad |
29 Henry Fielding The Author's Farce J Gay Polly
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30s
| 30 Henry Fielding The Rape upon Rape
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard c
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31 George Lillo The London Merchant d Marivaux
La vie de Marianne Abbe Prevost Manon Lescut |
| 32 Philippe Nericault Le Glorieux c London thtr co
in NY |
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| 34 Francois Goyot de Pitaval Causes celebres et
interessantes Charles Johnson The lives & Adventures of the Most Famous
Highwaymen |
35 Marivaux Le
Paysan parvenu in Dublin Swift's Collected Works 1st 4 Vols published
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37 Matthew Green The Spleen p Ignacio de Luzan
Claramunt de Suelves y Gurrea Poetica London
Liccnsing Act restricts # of thtrs & plays subject to Lord Chamberlain's
censorship |
| 38 Samuel Johnson London
epic p Alexis Piron La Metromanie c Swift A Complete Collection of Genteel &
Ingenious Conversations |
39 Swift Verses on
the Death of Doctor Swift |
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40s
| 40 Cibber An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber,
Comedian Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon Memoires Samuel Richardson
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded |
41 Thomas Betterton A History of the English Stage Robert Dodsley
The Blin Beggar of Bethnal Green d David Garrick plays Richard III Samuel Richardson
Familiar Letters 1st Ger transl Shakespeare Julius Caesar von Borck Voltaire Mahomet
t |
| 42 Crebillon fils La Sopha n Henry Fielding Joseph
Andrews |
43 Fielding Jonathan Wild the Great Voltaire Merope d
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| 44 Johnson Life of Mr Richard Savage |
45 Swift Directions to Servants in General & dies James Thomson Tancred
& Sigismunda t Johnson Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth
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| 46 Gellert Fabein und Erzahlungen |
47 Charles Colle La Verite dans le vin c David Garrick Miss
in her Teens, or The Medley of Lovers c Christian Gellert Die kranke Frau
c Johnson Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language Voltaire Zadig
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| 48 Marie-Therese Geoffrin opens Paris lit salon Carlo Goldoni The Liar
c Carlo Gozzi Turandot Klopstock Der Messias Samuel Richardson
Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady Tobias Smollett The Adventures
of Roderick Random |
49 Wllm Chetwood A General History of the Stage Fielding JThe History of
Tom Jones, a Foundling Johnson Irene t |
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50s
| 50 Goldoni The Cafe c Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 1st NY Playhouse opens Johnson
begins The Rambler |
51 Lessing
becomes literary critic of Vossische Zeitung Berrlin Robert Paltock The
Life & Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man Tobias Smollett The
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle |
| 52 Fielding
Amelia Charlotte Lennox The Female Quixote Philip Freneau poet of
the Amerrican Revolution |
53 Golodoni La Locandiera cSamuel Richardson
Sir Charles Grandison Tobias Smollettt Ferdinand
Count Fathom |
| 54 Crebillon fils Le Triumvirat t Salomon Gessner
Daphine |
55 Lessing Miss Sara Sampson t Noverre
ballet master at Drury Lane Voltaire La Pucelle d'Orleans
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| 56 Robert & James Dodsley Theat |
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