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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1912. ==Events== *January 5 (December 23, 1911 O.S.) - Stanislavski and Craig's seminal symbolist Moscow Art Theatre production of ''Hamlet'' opens. *January 21 - Joseph Conrad achieves his first popular success as the ''New York Herald'' begins serializing his novel ''Chance'', having bought the rights to the unfinished work, halted in 1906, in June 1911. Conrad continues to work on finishing the book while the first chapters are appearing weekly in the ''Herald'', completing it on March 26. *March 3 - Frieda Weekley meets D. H. Lawrence in Nottingham.〔 〕 *April 14–15 - Sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'': The ocean liner strikes an iceberg and sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States. American mystery writer Jacques Futrelle, English journalist and publisher William Thomas Stead and American bibliophile Harry Elkins Widener are among the more than 1500 dead. A copy of the ''Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'' in a jewelled binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (1911) is also lost. The event leads to a flood of poems, including Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain". *August 10 - Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf at St. Pancras Town Hall in London. *September 21〔(James Woodfield, ''English Theatre in Transition, 1881-1914'', p147 )〕 - Harley Granville-Barker's production of Shakespeare's ''The Winter's Tale'' opens at the Savoy Theatre, London, with simplified scenery, ensemble acting and naturalistic verse speaking. It is replaced in November by his production of ''Twelfth Night''. *October * *Edgar Rice Burroughs' character Tarzan (Viscount Greystoke, raised as a feral child by the fictional Mangani great apes) first appears in ''Tarzan of the Apes'' in American pulp magazine ''The All-Story''. * *Sax Rohmer's character Fu Manchu (a "Yellow Peril" master criminal) first appears in "The Zayat Kiss" in English pulp magazine ''Story-Teller'', the first instalment of ''The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu''. *October 25 – First issue of ''Simbolul'', put out in Bucharest by Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara, and Ion Vinea. *Texts of 13 Sanskrit dramas, perhaps from the first centuries BCE and probably by Bhāsa (including the ''Svapnavasavadattam''), are discovered by the scholar T. Ganapati Sastri in a palm-leaf codex in Kerala. *Arthur Schnitzler's play ''La Ronde'' (''Reigen'', 1900) is first performed (without the author's consent), in Budapest, and also first translated into French. *Publication of the Loeb Classical Library, parallel text editions of the classics, begins by London publisher Heinemann. 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「1912 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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