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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1899. ==Events== *January 21 - French actress Sarah Bernhardt, having taken over management of the Paris theatre which she renames the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, opens in the title rôle of Victorien Sardou's ''La Tosca''. On May 20 she premières an adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' with herself in the title rôle (''sic.'') *March 20 - W. H. Davies, "tramp-poet", loses his foot trying to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario. *April - Karl Kraus establishes the radical periodical ''Die Fackel'' ("The Torch") in Vienna. *April–June - Rainer Maria Rilke (an art student at this time) travels to Moscow to meet Leo Tolstoy. *May–December - Winston Churchill's only work of fiction, ''Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania'', is serialized in ''Macmillan's Magazine''. *May 8 - The Irish Literary Theatre, founded by W. B. Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn, stages its first performance in Dublin, a version of Yeats' verse drama ''The Countess Cathleen''. *June 20 - English writer Edward Thomas marries Helen Noble at Fulham register office. *September 1 - The National Theatre in Norway opens with performances of pieces by Holberg. *September - The British Mutoscope and Biograph Company's ''King John'' (a very short silent film starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree) becomes the first known film based on a Shakespeare play. *November - The oldest surviving Japanese film, ''Momijigari'', is shot by Tsunekichi Shibata in Tokyo as a record of kabuki actors Onoe Kikugorō V and Ichikawa Danjūrō IX performing a scene from the play ''Momijigari''. *November 6 - William Gillette's play ''Sherlock Holmes'', based on the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, opens in New York City with himself in the title rôle. *November 7 (October 26 Old Style) - Anton Chekhov's ''Uncle Vanya'' receives its metropolitan première at the Moscow Art Theatre with Konstantin Stanislavski directing and playing the rôle of Astrov and Olga Knipper as Yeléna. *December 12 - Herbert Putnam is appointed Librarian of Congress in the United States, where he will introduce into practice the Library of Congress Classification scheme. *December - The imprisoned William Sydney Porter's pseudonym O. Henry first appears over the short story "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" in this month's ''McClure's Magazine''. *Curtis Brown (literary agents) established in London by American Albert Curtis Brown. *Edgar Rice Burroughs begins working in his father's business. *Simon Pokagon's ''O-gi-maw-kwe Mit-I-gwa-ki (Queen of the Woods)'' is published, the first novel both by and about Native Americans in the United States. *Arthur Machen's wife Amy dies after a long illness, an event that has a devastating effect on him. *Lin Shu's first translation into Chinese from a Western text, ''The Lady of the Camellias'' as 巴黎茶花女遺事, is published. *First series of the Arden Shakespeare under the general editorship of W. J. Craig begins publication by Methuen in London with an edition of ''Hamlet'' edited by Edward Dowden. 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「1899 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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