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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1746. ==Events== * May 9 – Voltaire, on being admitted into the Académie française, gives a ''discours de réception'' in which he criticizes Boileau's poetry.〔In England, Voltaire's speech is quoted in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' in July and the full text is translated into English in ''Dodsley's Museum'' for December 20. 〕 * June – Samuel Johnson is commissioned to compile ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' by a group of London booksellers. * August 28 – A Native American massacre of two white families in Deerfield, Massachusetts, this day gives rise to the first known poem by an African American, Lucy Terry (at this time a slave aged around 16), "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746".〔The ballad is related orally for a century and first printed in Josiah Gilbert Holland's ''History of Western Massachusetts'' in 1855. 〕 * October 4 – Irish actor Spranger Barry makes his London stage debut in the title role of ''Othello'' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (with Charles Macklin as Iago). * Probable first performance of Carlo Goldoni's comedy ''Servant of Two Masters'' ((イタリア語:Il servitore di due padroni)), at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice. * The oldest manuscript of Jean de Joinville's ''Life of Saint Louis'' is rediscovered in Brussels. * Élie Catherine Fréron founds his controversial journal ''Lettres de la comtesse de...'' 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「1746 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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