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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 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 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 1 - Voltaire arrives for a 3-year stay in England. * October 26 - Publication in London (anonymously in two volumes) of Jonathan Swift's satirical novel ''Gulliver's Travels'' 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 within a week. * Teatro Valle opens in Rome. * Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism to receive a church pension and annuls her marriage. * The ''Gujin Tushu Jicheng'', an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using copper-based movable type printing. 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「1726 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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