1784 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1784.

Events

April 27 - First public performance of Pierre Beaumarchais' comedy The Marriage of Figaro as La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris. It runs for 68 consecutive performances, earning higher box-office receipts than any other French play of the century.^[1] It is translated into English by Thomas Holcroft^[2] and, under the title The Follies of a Day, or The Marriage of Figaro, is produced at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London by the end of the year.
June 26 - Friedrich Schiller delivers his paper, Die Schaubühne als eine moralische Anstalt betrachtet (The Theatre considered as a Moral Institution), to the palatine "Deutschen Gesellschaft".^[3]
Royal Danish Theatre founded.
The Didot typeface is devised and cut by Firmin Didot in Paris.
Gottlieb Jakob Planck becomes professor of theology at Göttingen.

George Colman the Younger - Two to One
Hannah Cowley
- A Bold Stroke for a Husband
- More Ways Than One
Richard Cumberland
- The Carmelite
- The Natural Son
Thomas Holcroft - The Follies of the Day (translation of Pierre Beaumarchais' Le Mariage de Figaro)
Elizabeth Inchbald - Mogul Tale
Friedrich Schiller - Intrigue and Love (Kabale und Liebe)

Thomas Astle - The Origin and Progress of Writing
George Berkeley - Works
Edmund Burke - Speech on the East India Bill
Thomas Chatterton - Supplement to the Miscellanies
James Cook - A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
George Bubb Dodington - Diary
Antoine Court de Gébelin - Le Monde primitif is finished to be published
William Godwin - Sketches of History
Samuel Horsley - Letters from the Archdeacon of St. Albans
Immanuel Kant - What is Enlightenment?
William Mitford - The History of Greece
Antoine de Rivarol - Sur l'universalité de la langue française
Emanuel Swedenborg - A Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Arcana by Way of Representation and Correspondences (published, written in 1741).
Michel Augustin Thouret - Recherches et doutessur le magnétisme animal
Arthur Young - Annals of Agriculture

January 31 – Bernard Barton, English Quaker poet (died 1849)
February 10 – Adam Black, Scottish publisher (died 1874)
May 12 – James Sheridan Knowles, Irish actor and dramatist (died 1862)
May 21 – Ernst Raupach, German dramatist (died 1852)
May 18 – William Tennant, Scottish poet (died 1848)
August 21 - Charlotta Berger, Swedish poet and novelist (died 1852)
September 25 – Louisa Gurney Hoare, English diarist and writer on education (died 1836)
October 16 - Wilhelm Nienstädt, Prussian educator and writer (died 1862)
October 19 – Leigh Hunt, English critic, essayist, poet (died 1859)
November 17 – Julia Nyberg, née Svärdström, Swedish poet (died 1854)

January 17 – Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (born 1716)
January 30 – John Holt, American publisher (born 1721)
April 24 – Franciszek Bohomolec, Polish dramatist, linguist, and theatrical reformer (born 1720)
July 31 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher, art critic, and writer (born 1713)
December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English poet, critic, biographer and lexicographer (born 1709)
Unknown date – Lê Quý Đôn, Vietnamese philosopher, poet and encyclopedist (born 1726)^[5]

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↑ Rüdiger Safranski: Schiller oder Die Erfindung des Deutschen Idealismus. Hanser, München 2004 ISBN 3-446-20548-9 (German)
↑ Books and Writers: William Combe. Accessed 12 February 2013
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