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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1796. ==Events== *Samuel Ireland publishes a collection of Shakespearean forgeries in his ''Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare'' (dated this year but actually produced on 24 December 1795). Edmond Malone exposes them in his ''An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments'' on 31 March, and the forged 'Shakespearean' play, ''Vortigern and Rowena'', is able to sustain just a single performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 2 April. Ireland's son, William Henry, confesses to the fraud in ''An Authentic Account of the Shakespearean Manuscripts''. *February 29 - The Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal is established as the Royal Public Library of the Court in Lisbon. *March 1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge launches his periodical ''The Watchman''; it lasts for only ten issues. In April his first verse collection, ''Poems on Various Subjects'', is published in London. *July 30 - A performance of an historical drama, ''Jane Shore'', is given in Sydney, Australia; the playbill, printed by George Hughes, is the earliest known surviving item printed in the country. *September 22 - Mary Lamb commits matricide. 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「1796 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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