This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1782.
Events
- January 13 â Friedrich Schiller's first play, the revolutionary melodrama The Robbers (Die Räuber), causes a sensation in Mannheim at its first performance. Schiller, a military doctor at the time, is arrested for attending the performance without having permission to leave his regiment.
- August 18 â William Blake marries Catherine Boucher at St Mary's Church, Battersea. In the same year, he meets his future patron, John Flaxman.
- October 10 â 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.
- 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.
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 30 â Ann Taylor, English poet and critic (died 1866)
- February â Georg Koës, Danish philologist (died 1811)
- March 2 â Isaac Pocock, English dramatist and painter (died 1835)
- April 16 â William Jerdan, Scottish journalist (died 1869)
- June 9 â Peter Fisher, Canadian historian (died 1848)
- September 7 â Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Scottish novelist (died 1854)
- September 19 â Richard Lower, English dialect poet (died 1865)
- unknown dates
- Alexander Jamieson, Scottish textbook writer, schoolmaster and rhetorician (died 1850)
- Grace Kennedy, Scottish novelist (died 1825)
- Benjamin Thorpe, English scholar of Anglo-Saxon (died 1870)
Deaths
References