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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1964. ==Events== *January 10 - Federico García Lorca's play ''The House of Bernarda Alba'', completed just before his assassination in 1936, receives its first performance in Spain.〔(House of Bernarda Alba - Premiere in Madrid (Spanish) ). Accessed 27 November 2013〕 *January 12 - Royal Shakespeare Company Experimental Group open a 4-week Theatre of Cruelty season at the LAMDA Theatre Club, London. *January 23 - Arthur Miller's play ''After the Fall'' opens at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre Off-Broadway in New York, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Jason Robards and Kazan's wife Barbara Loden. A semi-autobiographical work, it arouses controversy over Miller's portrayal of late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe. *February 11 - ''R. v. Gold (Mayflower Books intervening)'': A London retailer is found guilty under section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 of stocking a 1963 edition of John Cleland's novel ''Fanny Hill'' (''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'', 1748-9). *April 23 - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust opens the Shakespeare Centre, housing its library and research facilities, in Stratford-upon-Avon (England). *April 29 - Peter Weiss's play with music ''Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade'' ("The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade", known as ''Marat/Sade'') premieres at the Schiller Theater in West Berlin. In August it receives its English-language premiere by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London at the Aldwych Theatre. *May - Michael Moorcock becomes editor of the science fiction magazine ''New Worlds''. *May 6 - Joe Orton's black comedy ''Entertaining Mr Sloane'' premieres at the New Arts Theatre in London. *May 29 - Le Théâtre du Soleil is established as a collective avant-garde stage ensemble by Ariane Mnouchkine, Philippe Léotard and fellow students of L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, going on to present its first show, ''Les Petits Bourgeois'' (adapted from Maxim Gorky's Мещане), at Théâtre Mouffetard.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theatre-du-soleil.fr/thsol/a-propos-du-theatre-du-soleil,1/l-historique/chronologie-des-spectacles-du?lang=fr )〕 *June 22 - Henry Miller's ''Tropic of Cancer'' is allowed to circulate legally in the United States by the U.S. Supreme Court three decades after its original publication in France, after the U.S. Supreme Court, in ''Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein'', cites ''Jacobellis v. Ohio'' (which is decided the same day) and overrules state court findings that the book is obscene. *August 11 - Ian Fleming walks to the Royal St George's Golf Club in Canterbury, Kent, for lunch and later dines at his hotel with friends, collapsing shortly afterwards with a heart attack. His last recorded words are an apology to the ambulance drivers for having inconvenienced them, saying "I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don't know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days." Fleming dies next day. *September - Everyman Theatre opens in Liverpool, England. *September 28 - Brian Friel's play ''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'' is premièred at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. *October 28 - ''The Wednesday Play'' debuts on BBC1 television in the United Kingdom, presenting original one-off contemporary social drama, mostly written for television. *Jean-Paul Sartre becomes head of the Organization to Defend Iranian Political Prisoners (ODIPP). *W. H. Auden describes his "Vision of Agape" (June 1933) in his preface to the anthology ''The Protestant Mystics''. 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「1964 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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