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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1904. ==Events== * January * *Mark Twain begins dictating his ''Autobiography''. * *First issue of ''Süddeutsche Monatshefte'', published in Munich by Paul Nikolaus Cossmann. * January 17 - Anton Chekhov's last play, ''The Cherry Orchard'' («Вишнëвый сад», ''Vishnevyi sad''), premières at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski. * February 25 - J. M. Synge's tragedy ''Riders to the Sea'' is first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theatre Society. * March 1 - Sophie Radford de Meissner's translation of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 1863 historical drama ''Ivan the Terrible'' is first performed at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway, New York City, by Richard Mansfield.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ibdb.com/show.php?ID=4809 )〕 * April 24 - Lithuanian press ban in the Russian Empire lifted. * June 16 - The original "Bloomsday", the day James Joyce meets Nora Barnacle and on which the action of his novel ''Ulysses'' (1922) takes place in Dublin. *June 28 - Anton Chekhov, dying of tuberculosis at Badenweiler, writes to his sister Masha, saying his health is improving.〔Letter to sister Masha, 28 June 1904. (''Letters of Anton Chekhov'' ).〕 He dies just over two weeks later. * September - Mark Twain purchases a home at 21 Fifth Avenue, New York City. * November 1 - George Bernard Shaw's comedy about Ireland, ''John Bull's Other Island'', opens at the Royal Court Theatre, London, under the management of Harley Granville-Barker after W. B. Yeats rejects it for Dublin's Abbey Theatre. * December 24 - The Coliseum Theatre in London opens.〔 * December 27 * * The Irish National Theatre Society (Abbey Theatre) opens to the public in Dublin for the first time. The bill consists of three one-act plays, ''On Baile's Strand'' and ''Cathleen Ní Houlihan'' by Yeats and ''Spreading the News'' by Lady Gregory. * * J. M. Barrie's stage play ''Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up'' premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London with Nina Boucicault in the title rôle and Gerald du Maurier as Captain Hook and Mr. Darling; du Maurier is the uncle of the Llewellyn Davies boys who inspired the story. * Alexander Blok's poetry cycle ''Stikhi o prekrasnoi Dame'' ("Verses to the Beautiful Lady"), written to his new wife, ushers in the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. * The Marquis de Sade's ''The 120 Days of Sodom'' (''Les 120 journées de Sodome''), written in 1785, is first published, by Berlin sexologist Dr. Iwan Bloch (as "Dr. Eugen Dühren") * Translations of Leo Tolstoy's ''War and Peace'' into English by Constance Garnett and by Leo Wiener are published. * Herbert Beerbohm Tree establishes what will become the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, at His Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket (London). 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「1904 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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