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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1726.




Events


February – Lavinia Fenton makes her stage debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's The Orphan at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
April 5 – Publication takes place in London of Lewis Theobald's Shakespeare Restored, or A Specimen of the Many Errors As Well Committed as Unamended by Mr Pope in his Late Edition of this Poet; Designed Not only to correct the said Edition, but to restore the True Reading of Shakespeare in all the Editions ever yet published.
May 10 – Voltaire leaves France for a three-year stay in Britain.
May 25 – Britain's first circulating library is opened in Edinburgh by the poet and bookseller Allan Ramsay.
July – Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism to receive a church pension, and annuls her marriage.
October 28 – Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels is published in London, anonymously in two volumes, as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. It sells out in a week.
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The Teatro Valle opens in Rome.
The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (古今圖書集成), an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using copper-based movable type printing.




New books






= Fiction

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Penelope Aubin – The Life and Adventures of the Lady Lucy (novel)
Jane Barker – The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (sequel to 1723's A Patch-Work Screen)
William Rufus Chetwood – The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle (fiction, sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe)
Eliza Haywood
The City Jilt
The Mercenary Lover
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Cadenus and Vanessa




= Drama

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Venkata Ajapura – Mairavana Kalaga
Aaron Hill – The Fatal Extravagance (printed, staged in 1721)
Charles Johnson – The Female Fortune Teller
Thomas Southerne – Money the Mistress
Leonard Welsted – The Dissembled Wanton
Richard West – Hecuba




= Poetry

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Alexander Pope – The Odyssey of Homer
Richard Savage – Miscellaneous Poems
William Somervile – Occasional Poems
Jonathan Swift (anonymously) – Cadenus and Vanessa (written 1713)
James Thomson – Winter (part of The Four Seasons)




= Non-fiction

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John Balguy – A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion
Joseph Butler – Fifteen Sermons
Anthony Collins – The Scheme of Literal Prophecy
Corporate authorship – The Craftsman (periodical associated with Henry St. John)
Daniel Defoe
The Political History of the Devil
A System of Magick
John Dennis – The Stage Defended (reply to Law, below)
José Francisco de Isla – Papeles critico-apologéticos
William Law
The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage
A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection
Samuel Penhallow – History of the Wars of New-England with the Eastern Indians
William Penn
Fruits of a Father's Love
A Collection of the Works of William Penn
(with William Pulteney) – The Discovery
Martín Sarmiento – Reflexiones sobre el Diccionario de la lengua castellana que compuso la Real Academia en el año de 1726
George Shelvocke – A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea
Joseph Spence – An Essay on Popes' Odyssey
Lewis Theobald – Shakespeare Restored
Diego de Torres Villarroel – El ermitaño y Torres




Births


March 11 – Louise d'Épinay, French writer (died 1783)
April 7 – Charles Burney, English historian of music and composer (died 1814)
June 14 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist and writer (died 1798)
September 2 – John Howard, English philanthropist and writer (died 1790)
September 25 – Angelo Maria Bandini, Italian author and librarian (died 1800)
September 26 – John H. D. Anderson, Scottish natural philosopher (died 1796)




Deaths


March 24 – Daniel Whitby, English theologian (born 1638)
March 26 – Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist and architect (born 1664)
April 5 – Ludwig Babenstuber, German theologian and philosopher (born 1660)
April 26 – Jeremy Collier, English theologian and critic (born 1650)
May 20 – Nicholas Brady, Irish poet (born 1659)
July 5 – Domenico Viva, Italian theologian (born 1648)
July 6 – Humfrey Wanley, English librarian and palaeographer (born 1672)
August 12 – Charles Shadwell, English dramatist (year of birth unknown)
December 2 – Samuel Penhallow, English historian (born 1665)
December 11 – Jacques Bouillart, French Benedictine historian (born 1669)




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