1767 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1767. Events January 29 – The former watchmaker and entrepreneur Pierre Beaumarchais has his first full-length drama, Eugénie, premièred at the Comédie-Française. Revised in two days, it establishes his reputation in this field. February – King George III of Great Britain requests an introduction to Samuel Johnson from his librarian, Frederick Augusta Barnard. They meet in the library of the Queen's House. April 24 – First professional performance of a play by an American, The Prince of Parthia by Thomas Godfrey (died 1763), at the new Southwark Theatre in Philadelphia with Lewis Hallam Jr. in a leading rôle. December 7 – John Street Theatre (Manhattan), the first permanent theater in New York City, is opened by David Douglass with a performance of The Beaux' Stratagem. Construction of Teatro Real Coliseo de Carlos III de Aranjuez, the first enclosed theatre in Spain, begins. Richard Price's volume of sermons, Four Dissertations, is published by Andrew Millar and Thomas Cadell in London, and he joins the "Bowood circle", a group of liberal intellectuals around William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, at Bowood House in Wiltshire (England) and corresponds with Benjamin Franklin. Publication of the Epistles and Book of Revelation in Manx as Sceeuyn Paul yn Ostyl gys ny Romanee completes the first translation of the New Testament into that language. Publication of the first secular prose book in any of the Sorbian languages by Jurij Mjeń. New books Fiction James Boswell – Dorando Phebe Gibbes – The Woman of Fashion Hugh Kelly – Memoirs of a Magdalen Susannah Minifie – Barford Abbey Frances Sheridan Continuation of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (posthumous) The History of Nourjahad Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman vol. ix Unca Eliza Winkfield (pseudonym) – The Female American Arthur Young – The Adventures of Emmera