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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1717. ==Events== *January - ''Three Hours After Marriage'', a play written by Alexander Pope, John Gay and John Arbuthnot, is staged. The play satirizes poet and critic John Dennis as "Sir Tremendous Longinus the Critic", Lady Winchilsea as "Clinkett the poetess" and Colley Cibber as "Plotwell". The play meets with massive criticism and has a short run, mortifying Pope. In February, Dennis publishes his critical ''Remarks upon Mr Pope's Translation of Homer''〔 to which in May Thomas Parnell ripostes with ''Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice. With the Remarks of Zolius. To which is prefixed, the Life of the said Zolius'', after which Dennis and Pope are reconciled for a decade.〔 *March 27 - Actress Adrienne Lecouvreur is invited to join the Comédie-Française in Paris, premièring in the title rôle of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's ''Electre''. *May 16 - Voltaire is sentenced to eleven months in the Bastille and is banished from Paris for criticizing the Duc D'Orléans.〔(This Day in History. )〕 While in prison he writes his first play, ''Oedipe'' ("Oedipus"). *At the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London, actor-manager John Rich introduces the character of Harlequin into pantomimes.〔 〕 *Publication (posthumously in Lyon) of the last two volumes of Antoine Galland's ''Les mille et une nuits'', the first translation of ''One Thousand and One Nights'' into a European language, also including the first translation of the story of Ali Baba. *Irish poet Hugh MacCurtin (Aodh Buidhe Mac Cuirtin)'s ''A brief discourse in vindication of the antiquity of Ireland, out of many authentick Irish histories and chronicles'' (based on Geoffrey Keating's ''History of Ireland'') is published in Dublin. The author is imprisoned in the city about this time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1717 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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