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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1923. ==Events== *February - T. E. Lawrence is forced to leave the British Royal Air Force, his alias as 352087 Aircraftman John Hume Ross having been exposed, and joins the Royal Tank Corps as 7875698 Private T. E. Shaw. *April 11 - Sean O'Casey's drama ''The Shadow of a Gunman'', the first of his "Dublin Trilogy", opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. *April 21 - The first of a series of innovative modern dress productions of Shakespeare plays, ''Cymbeline'', directed by H. K. Ayliff, opens at Barry Jackson's Birmingham Repertory Theatre in England. *May 9 - The première of Bertolt Brecht's play ''In the Jungle of Cities'' (''Im Dickicht der Städte'') at the Residenz Theatre in Munich is disrupted by Nazi demonstrators. *May 11 - Dorothy L. Sayers' fictional English detective and bibliophile Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in print when the novel ''Whose Body?'' is first published by Boni & Liveright in the United States; the first U.K. edition follows in October from T. Fisher Unwin. *Mid-June - Date in which Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel ''Mrs Dalloway'' is set. *July 6 - A riot breaks out at the re-staging of Tristan Tzara's Dadaist play ''The Gas Heart'' at the Théâtre Michel, Paris, between those artists aligned with André Breton and those aligned with Tzara; the conflict leads to a permanent split in the Dada movement and the founding of Surrealism as an alternative. *Summer - Teenage English brothers Julian and Quentin Bell begin issuing a family newspaper, the ''Charleston Bulletin'', at their Sussex home, Charleston Farmhouse, with occasional contributions by their maternal aunt Virginia Woolf. *September - T. S. Eliot's poem ''The Waste Land'' (1922) is first published in the United Kingdom in book form complete with notes in a limited edition by the Hogarth Press of London, run by Eliot's Bloomsbury friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the type handset by Virginia. *December 28 - George Bernard Shaw's drama ''Saint Joan'' is premiered at the Garrick Theatre (New York City) on Broadway by the Theatre Guild with Winifred Lenihan in the title role. *Poet Xu Zhimo founds the Crescent Moon Society in China. *The Swedish printers Almqvist & Wiksell of Uppsala move into publishing. 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「1923 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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