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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1750. ==Events== *March – ''The Rambler'' is founded by Edward Cave; it lasts for 208 issues, and is mostly written by Samuel Johnson. *March 5 – Shakespeare's ''Richard II'' (in Colley Cibber's version) is presented at their theatre on Nassau Street (Manhattan) by Walter Murray and Thomas Kean, the earliest known significant professional performance of Shakespeare in north America. *Weekly meetings for contributors to the ''Encyclopédie'' begin, at the salon of Baron d'Holbach. *Jean-Jacques Rousseau wins the prize of the Academy of Dijon for his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences. *The London theatres wage "the ''Romeo and Juliet'' war" — competing productions with David Garrick and Anne Bellamy at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane versus Spranger Barry and Susannah Cibber at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. *Old Orchard Street Theatre opens in Bath (England) under the management of John Palmer, with a performance of Shakespeare’s ''Henry IV, Part 2''. *Carlo Goldoni commits himself to writing a comedy for each week of the 1750–51 seasons at Gerolamo Medebach's Teatro San Angelo in Venice – 16 plays. *After taking his MD at Aberdeen, Tobias Smollett travels in France, collecting material for ''The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle''. 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「1750 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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