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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1757. ==Events== *May 3 - Irish-born actress Peg Woffington, playing Rosalind in ''As You Like It'', suffers a stroke on stage at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London and never acts again. *May 6 - Poet Christopher Smart is confined to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London.〔 He may have been confined in a private madhouse before this.〕 *November/December - Thomas Gray turns down the post of Poet Laureate of Great Britain. * Angelo Maria Bandini is appointed librarian of the Laurentian Library in Florence. * Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his name to Beaumarchais. * Jonathan Edwards becomes President of the institution that will become Princeton University. * Robert Raikes becomes proprietor of the ''Gloucester Journal''. * Horace Walpole begins the Strawberry Hill Press. * Thomas Warton is appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. * The Parlement of Toulouse stages a public burning of Jesuit author Hermann Busenbaum's ''Medulla Theologiae Morales'' because of its treatment of the subject of regicide. * The Baskerville typeface is designed by John Baskerville of Birmingham, England, and first used in an edition of Virgil (''Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Æneis''). 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「1757 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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