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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1956. ==Events== *c. January - First book in Ed McBain's long-running 87th Precinct police procedural series, ''Cop Hater'', is published in the United States under Evan Hunter's new pseudonym. *February 2 - Eugene O'Neill's semi-autobiographical drama ''Long Day's Journey into Night'' (completed 1942) receives its posthumous world première at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, in Swedish (as ''Lång dags färd mot natt'') in a production directed by Bengt Ekerot and starring Lars Hanson. The play's Broadway debut takes place at the Helen Hayes Theatre on November 7, shortly after its American premiere at the Shubert Theatre (New Haven). *February 27 - English poet Ted Hughes and American poet Sylvia Plath meet in Cambridge, England. *March 11 - U.S. release of Sir Laurence Olivier's film version of Shakespeare's ''Richard III'' simultaneously on NBC network television and as afternoon matinée screenings in movie theaters, giving it a television audience estimated at between 25 and 40 million, almost certainly the largest up to this date for a Shakespearean production. *March 19 - Widowed English author Aldous Huxley marries Italian American film-maker and author Laura Archera at a drive-in wedding chapel in Yuma, Arizona. *April 23 - C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham make a civil marriage at Oxford register office.〔42, St Giles'. 〕 *May 8 - First performance of John Osborne's play ''Look Back in Anger'' by the newly formed English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Alan Bates has his first major role as Cliff. The theatre's press release describes the dramatist as among the angry young men of the time, a plural phrase which appears on July 26 in a ''Daily Express'' headline. *June 16 - Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry at St George the Martyr, Holborn in the London Borough of Camden. *June 26 & August 23 - Books published by discredited psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich are burned in the United States under court injunction. *June - Nineteen-year-old Hunter S. Thompson is arrested as an accessory to robbery. *July 4 - The National Library of Scotland's first purpose-built premises are opened in Edinburgh. *July 8 - The drama series ''Armchair Theatre'', produced by ABC Television for the ITV network in the United Kingdom, begins its run (1956–1968). *July 29 - Arthur Miller marries Marilyn Monroe in White Plains, New York. *August 14 - Iris Murdoch marries John Bayley at Oxford register office. *September 14 - Harold Pinter marries Vivien Merchant in a civil ceremony at Bournemouth, having met while touring in repertory theatre. *October - ''The Ladder'' becomes the first nationally distributed lesbian magazine in the United States. *December - Martin Gardner begins his ''Mathematical Games'' column in ''Scientific American''. *December 3 - Writing under the pseudonym of ''Emile Ajar'', author Romain Gary becomes the only person ever to win the Prix Goncourt twice, this time for ''Les Racines du ciel''. *Finished in 1952, Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's ''Cairo Trilogy'' (''Palace Walk'', ''Palace of Desire'', ''Sugar Street''), is first published. *Sixteen-year-old Michael Moorcock becomes editor of ''Tarzan Adventures''. *Jorge Luis Borges becomes a professor of English and American literature at the University of Buenos Aires. 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「1956 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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