1782 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1782.

Events

  • January 13 – Friedrich Schiller's first play, the revolutionary melodrama The Robbers (Die Räuber), causes a sensation in Mannheim at its first performance.[1] Schiller, a military doctor at the time, is arrested for attending the performance without having permission to leave his regiment.[2]
  • August 18 – William Blake marries Catherine Boucher at St Mary's Church, Battersea. In the same year, he meets his future patron, John Flaxman.
  • October 10 – Sarah Siddons makes a triumphant return to the Drury Lane Theatre in London, in the title role of David Garrick's adaptation of Thomas Southerne's Isabella, or, The Fatal Marriage.
  • unknown dates
    • Charles Dibdin becomes joint manager of the Royal Circus, afterwards known as the Surrey Theatre, in London.[3]
    • The Complete Library of the Four Treasuries (Siku Quanshu) is completed, the largest literary compilation in China's history. The books are bound in 36,381 volumes with more than 79,000 chapters, containing about 2.3 million pages and 800 million Chinese characters. The bibliography omits some titles, which are included in the Annotated Bibliography of the Four Treasuries the following year.Wilkinson, Endymion (2000). Chinese History: A Manual. Harvard University Asia Center. p. 276. ISBN 9780674002470.

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References

  1. ^ Hammer, Stephanie Barbé (2001). Schiller's Wound: The Theater of Trauma from Crisis to Commodity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 32. ISBN 0814328628.
  2. ^ "Brief Biography". Retrieved 2013-08-23.
  3. ^ "The Surrey Theatre, Blackfriars Road, London". Retrieved 2013-02-12.
  4. ^ Spadoni, Carl (2002). "Collecting Eighteenth-Century English Novels in the Twenty-First Century". Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 14 (3–4): 797–806. doi:10.1353/ecf.2002.0027. S2CID 162375254. Retrieved 2013-02-12. Article 20.
  5. ^ James Edward Tobin (1967). Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background: A Bibliography. Biblo and Tannen. p. 89.
  6. ^ Ellis Davies. "Pennant, Thomas (1725-1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  7. ^ Hyland, Paul; Gomez, Olga; Greensides, Francesca (2003). The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader. Psychology Press. p. 117. ISBN 9780415204484. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  8. ^ Alexander Jamieson, celestial map maker (abstract), by Ian Ridpath.
  9. ^ Otto Erich Deutsch (1 June 1966). Mozart: A Documentary Biography. Stanford University Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-8047-0233-1.
  10. ^ Durant, Will; Durant, Ariel (1967). The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and revolution; a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789. Simon and Schuster. p. 887.
  11. ^ Robert Roswell Palmer (1961). Catholics & Unbelievers in Eighteenth Century France. Cooper Square Publishers. p. 127.