1750 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1750. Events March – The Rambler is founded by Edward Cave; it lasts for 208 issues, and is mostly written by Samuel Johnson. March 5 – Shakespeare's Richard II (in Colley Cibber's version) is presented at their theatre on Nassau Street (Manhattan) by Walter Murray and Thomas Kean, the earliest known significant professional performance of Shakespeare in North America. unknown dates Weekly meetings for contributors to the Encyclopédie begin, at the salon of Baron d'Holbach. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wins the prize of the Academy of Dijon for his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences. London theatres wage "the Romeo and Juliet war" – competing productions appear with David Garrick and Anne Bellamy at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and with Spranger Barry and Susannah Cibber at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Old Orchard Street Theatre opens in Bath (England) under the management of John Palmer, with a performance of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2. Carlo Goldoni commits himself to writing a comedy for each week of the 1750–1751 seasons at Gerolamo Medebach's Teatro San Angelo in Venice – 16 plays. After taking an M.D. at Aberdeen, Tobias Smollett travels in France, collecting material for The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. New books Fiction Anonymous