1727 in literature
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The year 1727 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Richard Savage is arrested for the murder of James Sinclair in a drunken quarrel. He escapes the death penalty by the intercession of Frances, Countess of Hertford.
- Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood, or The Distress'd Lovers, claimed as an adaptation of the otherwise-lost Cardenio by Shakespeare and Fletcher, is acted at Drury Lane (and printed the following year).
[edit] New books
- Anonymous - Memoirs of the Court of Liliput (attrib. Eliza Haywood)
- Henry Baker - The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man
- Elizabeth Boyd as "Louisa" - Variety
- Mary Davys - The Accomplished Rake
- Daniel Defoe - Conjugal Lewdness
- - An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions
- - A New Family Instructor
- John Gay - Fables
- Eliza Haywood - Philidore and Placentia
- - Cleomelia
- - The Perplex'd Dutchess
- - The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania (roman a clef)
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - A Collection of Several Tracts
- John Oldmixon - Clarendon and Whitlock Compar'd
- James Ralph - The Tempest
- Henry St. John - The Occasional Writer (periodical)
- Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, et al. - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
- William Warburton - The Legal Judicature in Chancery stated (published anonymously)
[edit] New drama
- John Durant Breval - The Strollers
- Philip Frowde - The Fall of Saguntum
- James Moore Smythe - The Rival Modes
- Lewis Theobald - The Rape of Proserpine
[edit] Poetry
- Christopher Pitt - Poems and Translations
- Alexander Pope (attr.) - Several Copies of Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels (possibly by the whole Scribblerus Club)
- James Thomson
- A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton
- Summer (part of The Four Seasons)
- John Wright - Spiritual Songs for Children
[edit] Births
- March 7 - André Morellet, economist and writer (died 1819)
- December 27 - Arthur Murphy, biographer (died 1805)
- December - John Hoole, translator (died 1803)
[edit] Deaths
- February 13 - William Wotton, scholar and frequent target of Jonathan Swift (born 1666)
- September 17 - Glückel of Hameln, diarist (born 1647)
