Editing 1741 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1741.

==Events==
*[[January 15]] – The revival in the London theatre of [[Shakespeare]] plays featuring actresses in [[Travesti (theatre)|travesti]] roles continues at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]] with [[Hannah Pritchard]] as [[Viola (Twelfth Night)|Viola]] in ''[[Twelfth Night]]'', a play not performed for more than 70 years. [[Kitty Clive]] plays [[Olivia (Twelfth Night)|Olivia]]. Mrs Pritchard's [[Rosalind (As You Like It)|Rosalind (''As You Like It'')]] remains in the repertory.<ref name=Ritchie>{{cite journal|first=Fiona|last=Ritchie|title=Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Actress|journal=Borrowers and Lenders|volume=2|issue=2|year=2006|url=https://borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/article/view/50|accessdate=2023-12-29}}</ref>
*[[January 29]] – A life-size memorial to [[William Shakespeare]] (d. [[1616 in literature|1616]]), designed by [[William Kent]] and sculpted by [[Peter Scheemakers]], is erected in the [[Poets' Corner]] of [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/william-shakespeare |publisher=Westminster Abbey |accessdate=2013-11-29}}</ref>
*[[February 13]] – [[Andrew Bradford]] launches the American colonies' first periodical in [[Philadelphia]], the ''American Magazine''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2011/02/first_magazine_published_in_am.html |publisher=West Hempstead Public Library |title=First Magazine Published in America |accessdate=2012-07-22 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416032332/http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2011/02/first_magazine_published_in_am.html|archive-date=2013-04-16 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[February 14]] – Irish-born actor [[Charles Macklin]] makes his London stage debut as [[Shylock]] in ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]], pioneering a psychologically realistic style with Shakespeare's text revived, replacing [[George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne|George Granville]]'s melodramatic adaptation [[The Merchant of Venice#Performance history|''The Jew of Venice'']].<ref>{{cite book|first=John Russell|last=Brown|title=Shakespeare's Plays in Performance|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|year=1993|page=63}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=There, They Could Say, Is the Jew|date=1993-04-04|first=Louis|last=Simpson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/gross-shylock.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=2013-09-04}}</ref> [[Kitty Clive]] plays the travesti role of [[Portia (The Merchant of Venice)|Portia]] with Mrs Pritchard as Nerissa.<ref name=Ritchie/>
*[[March 14]] – [[Burgtheater|K. K. Theater an der Burg]] (Imperial Court Theatre) in [[Vienna]] opens.
*[[October 19]] – [[David Garrick]] makes his London stage debut in the title role of Shakespeare's ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]''. His performance quickly packs theaters.<ref>[[Horace Walpole]] remarked, "There was a dozen dukes a night at Goodman's Fields." Freedley, George; Reeves, John A. (1968). ''A History of the Theatre''. New York, Crown. p. 290.</ref> His professional debut was earlier in the year at [[Ipswich]], in [[Thomas Southerne]]'s adaptation of ''[[Oroonoko]]''.
*''unknown date''
**The first translation of a Shakespeare play into German, ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'', is made by C. W. von Bork, using [[alexandrine]]s.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare |edition=2nd |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-19-870873-5}}</ref>
**Printer [[Robert Foulis (printer)|Robert Foulis]] sets up as a publisher in [[Edinburgh]].<ref>{{Cite book |author=Stephen W Brown |title=Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QYxvAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR18 |date=30 November 2011 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-5095-8 |pages=18}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
*Anonymous
**''The Life of Pamela'' (parody of Richardson's ''[[Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded|Pamela]]'')<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Eliza Haywood |author2=Henry Fielding |title=Anti-Pamela and Shamela |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klvjJDtpllwC&pg=PA304 |date=29 January 2004 |publisher=Broadview Press |isbn=978-1-55111-383-8 |pages=304}}</ref>
**''Pamela Censured''
*[[Charles Balguy]] (anonymous translator) – ''[[The Decameron]]''
*[[Anne Claude de Caylus|Comte de Caylus]] – ''Les Féeries nouvelles''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Nicholas Cronk|author2=Kris Peeters|title=Le comte de Caylus: les arts et les lettres : actes du colloque international Université d'Anvers (UFSIA) et Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 26-27 mai 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6lSwiAYN3CkC&pg=PA209|year=2004|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-1139-4|pages=209}}</ref>
*[[Stephen Duck]] – ''Every Man in his Own Way''
*[[Henry Fielding]] (as [[Colley Cibber|Mr. Conny Keyber]]) – ''[[An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews]]''
*[[Eliza Haywood]] – ''[[The Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected]]''
*[[Ludvig Holberg]] – ''[[Niels Klim's Underground Travels]]''
*John Kelly – ''Pamela's Conduct in High Life'' (continuation of ''[[Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded|Pamela]]'')
*[[Alexander Pope]] with [[John Gay]] and [[John Arbuthnot]] – ''Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus''
*[[Charles Povey]] – ''The Virgin in Eden'' (prose fiction)
*[[Samuel Richardson]]
**''Letters Written to and for Particular Friends'' (also known as ''Familiar Letters'')
**''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'' vols. iii – iv
*[[Hristofor Zhefarovich]] – ''[[Stemmatographia]]''

===Drama===
*Anonymous – ''Pamela; or, Virtue Triumphant''
*[[Robert Dodsley]] – ''The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green'' (adapted from anonymous Elizabethan play)
*[[David Garrick]] – ''[[The Lying Valet]]''
*[[William Hatchett]] – ''The Chinese Orphan: An Historical Tragedy'' (adapted from the 13th-century Chinese play ''[[The Orphan of Zhao]]''; unperformed)
*John Kelly – ''The Levee''
*[[Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée]] – ''Mélanide''
*[[Voltaire]] – ''[[Mahomet (play)|Mahomet]]'' (first performed)

===Poetry===
{{main article|1741 in poetry}}
*[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] – ''The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer'' (new edition revives interest)
*[[William Shenstone]] – ''The Judgment of Hercules''
*[[Edward Young]] – ''Poetical Works of the Reverend Edward Young''
*Alonso Verdugo, third Earl of Torrepalma – ''Adonis''
*[[John Wesley|John]] and [[Charles Wesley]] – ''A Collection of Psalms and Hymns''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Thomas Betterton]] – ''The History of the English Stage, from the Restoration to the Present''
*[[Thomas Francklin]] – ''Of the Nature of the Gods''
*[[David Hume]] – ''Essays Moral and Political''
*[[Real Academia Española]] – ''Ortografía''
*[[Luigi Riccoboni]] – ''An Historical and Critical Account of the Theatres of Europe''
*[[Martín Sarmiento]] – ''Memorias para la historia de la poesía y poetas españoles''
*[[Emanuel Swedenborg]] – ''A Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Arcana by Way of Representation and Correspondences'' (written, published in [[1784]]).
*[[Jonathan Swift]]
**''Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence'' (pirate edition by [[Edmund Curll]], for which sued by Pope)
**''Some Free Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs''
*[[Isaac Watts]] – ''The Improvement of the Mind''
*[[Leonard Welsted]] – ''The Summum Bonum''
*[[George Whitefield]] – ''A Letter to the Reverend John Wesley''

==Births==
*[[January 6]] – [[Sarah Trimmer]], English writer for children (died [[1810 in literature|1810]])
*[[January 16]] – [[Hester Thrale]] (Mrs Piozzi), English diarist and arts patron (died [[1821 in literature|1821]])
*[[August 25]] – [[Karl Friedrich Bahrdt]], German theologian and adventurer (died [[1792 in literature|1792]])
*[[October 4]] – [[Edmond Malone]], Irish Shakespearean editor (died [[1812 in literature|1812]])
*[[October 18]] – [[Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]], French novelist (died [[1803 in literature|1803]])
*[[October 28]] – [[Johann August von Starck]], German theologian and political writer (died [[1816 in literature|1816]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 9]] – [[William Gwavas]], English lawyer and writer in the [[Cornish language]] (born [[1676 in literature|1676]])
*[[February 21]] – [[Jethro Tull (agriculturist)|Jethro Tull]], English agricultural innovator and writer (born [[1674 in literature|1674]])
*[[March 17]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Rousseau]], French dramatist and poet (born [[1671 in literature|1671]])
*[[April 10]] – [[Celia Fiennes]], English travel writer (born [[1662 in literature|1662]])
*[[July 30]] – [[Thomas Emlyn]], English Unitarian writer (born [[1663 in literature|1663]])
*[[December 14]] – [[Charles Rollin]], French historian (born [[1661 in literature|1661]])
*[[December 21]] – [[Bernard de Montfaucon]], French scholar and palaeographer (born [[1655 in literature|1655]])<ref>{{Cite book |author=John Lauris Blake |title=A General Biographical Dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wypmNIBUGokC&pg=PA658 |year=1842 |publisher=James Kay, Jun. and Brother |pages=658}}</ref>
*''unknown date'' – [[Anne Dick]], Scottish comic poet and lampoonist (year of birth unknown)<ref>{{cite book|author=James Grant|title=Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh: Its History, Its People, and Its Places|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIIJAAAAIAAJ|year=1884|publisher=Cassell|page=114}}</ref>

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