1733 in literature
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See also: 1732 in literature, other events of 1733, 1734 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Antoine François Prévost (Abbé Prévost) arrives in London, where he will edit Le Pour et centre
- Voltaire begins his relationship with Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet
- Laurence Sterne enters Jesus College, Cambridge.
- Romeo and Juliet becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed in America.
- Charles Macklin makes his debut at Drury Lane Theatre in The Recruiting Officer.
[edit] New books
[edit] New drama
- António José da Silva - Vida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Pança
[edit] Poetry
- James Bramston - The Man of Taste
[edit] Non-fiction
- Richard Graves - The Spiritual Quixote
- Jonathan Swift - On Poetry, a Rhapsody
- Voltaire - Letters Concerning the English Nation
[edit] Births
- January 12 - Antoine-Marin Lemierre, French poet and dramatist (died 1793)
- March 18 - Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, critic and bookseller (died 1811)
- August 22 - Jean-François Ducis, dramatist (died 1816)
- September 5 - Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet (died 1813)
- date unknown - Robert Lloyd, poet and satirist (died 1764)
[edit] Deaths
- January 19 - Bernard de Mandeville, satirist and philosopher (born 1670)
- March 12 - Michel Le Quien, theologian and historian (born 1661)
- March 13 - Mademoiselle Aïssé, letter-writer (born c.1694)
- June 23 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, scholar (born 1672)
- August 16 - Matthew Tindal, deist writer (born 1657)
- date unknown
- John Dunton, writer and booksseller (born 1659)
- Bernard de Mandeville, philosopher (born 1670)
