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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of1745.

Events

February – London theatres stage competing productions ofShakespeare'sKing John in response to theJacobite rising begun this summer byBonnie Prince Charlie.David Garrick's production of the original text atDrury Lane contrasts withColley Cibber's adaptationPapal Tyranny in the Reign of King John atCovent Garden. The rivalry anticipates "theRomeo and Juliet war" of five years later.^[1]
September 21 –Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock delivers a speech onepic poetry –Abschiedsrede über die epische Poesie, kultur- und literargeschichtlich erläutert – to mark his leaving school.
October 19 –Jonathan Swift, Irishsatirist andDean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, dies aged 78. His body is laid out in public for the people ofDublin to pay their last respects, and he is buried, in accordance with his wishes, in hiscathedral byEsther Johnson's side, withhis own epitaph:Ubi sæva Indignatio/Ulterius/Cor lacerare nequit ("Where savage indignation can no longer lacerate the heart").^[2]
November 17 – InBethlehem, Pennsylvania, BishopAugust Gottlieb Spangenberg of theMoravian Church asks innkeeper Samuel Powell to begin importing and distributing books, the origins of a bookstore still in existence in 2007.^[3]

Latin epitaph forJonathan Swift inSt Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin near his burial site. Literal translation: "Here is laid the Body of Jonathan Swift, Doctor of Sacred Theology, Dean of this Cathedral Church,where savage Indignation can no longer lacerate the Heart. Go forth, Voyager, and copy, if you can, this vigorous (to the best of his ability) Champion of Liberty. He died on the 19th Day of the Month of October, A.D. 1745, in the 78th Year of his Age."

New books

Prose

Mark Akenside –Odes
Elizabeth Boyd –The Snail: Or the Lady's Lucubrations (periodical – one vol. only published)
John Brown –An Essay on Satire, occasion'd by the death ofMr. Pope
Comte de Caylus –Cinq contes de fées (Five Fairy Tales)
John Gilbert Cooper –The Power of Harmony
Philip Doddridge –The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul
Henry Fielding
- A Serious Address to the People of Great Britain (on the Jacobite rebellion)
- The True Patriot (periodical)
Enrique Flórez –Mapa de todos los sitios de batallas que tuvieron los romanos en España
Samuel Johnson
- Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth
- Proposals for Printing a New Edition of the Plays of William Shakespear
Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc –Lettres d'un François (Letters on the English and French Nations)
Samuel Madden –Boulter's Monument
Pierre de Marivaux –La Vie de Marianne (The Life of Marianne; last published section of unfinished novel)
Moses Mendes –Henry and Blanche (trans. ofAlain-René Lesage)
Glocester Ridley –Jovi Eleutherio
Thomas Scott –England's Danger and Duty
Jonathan Swift (died October 19) –Directions to Servants (unfinished)
William Thompson –Sickness

Drama

Colley Cibber –Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John (adapted from Shakespeare)
Robert Dodsley –Rex et Pontifex
Luise Gottsched –Das Testament
Charles Jennens –Belshazzar (oratorio byHandel)
James Miller –The Picture (adapted fromMolière'sSganarelle)
James Thomson –Tancred and Sigismunda

Poetry

Main article:1745 in poetry

Births

January 4 –Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (died1812)
February 2
- Hannah More, English Romantic poet, religious writer and philanthropist (died1833)
- John Nichols, English printer and antiquary (died1826)
February 20 –Henry James Pye, English poet (died1813)
July 26 –Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist, writer and poet (died1831)
September 3 –Charles Victor de Bonstetten, Swiss liberal writer (died1832)
September 12(bapt.) –Karl von Marinelli, Austrian actor and dramatist (died1803)
October 13(bapt.) –William Crowe, English poet (died1829)
December 10 –Thomas Holcroft, English dramatist and miscellanist (died1809)
Probable year of birth –Olaudah Equiano, African writer (died1797)

Deaths

Spring –William Meston, Scottish poet (born c. 1688)^[4]
May 13 –Charles Coffey, Irish dramatist and composer^[5]
July 11 –Pierre Desmaiseaux, exiled French biographer (born c. 1673)
September 6 –David Wilkins, Prussian-born English orientalist (born1685)
October 19 –Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist (born1667)
November 16 –William Broome, English poet and translator (born1689)
December 16 –Pierre Desfontaines, French journalist and historian (born1685)
December 29 –Nur al-Din Nimatullah al-Jazayiri, Safavid Iranian Ja'fari jurist, linguist and writer (born1677)^[6]

In literature

Walter Scott's novelWaverley (1814) andRobert Louis Stevenson'sThe Master of Ballantrae (1889) are set during theJacobite rising of 1745.

References

^Michelle Lee (13 November 2000).Shakespearean Criticism. Cengage Gale. p. 287.ISBN 978-0-7876-4694-3.
^McMinn, Joseph (2016).Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life. Springer. p. 155.ISBN 978-1-349-21253-8.
^Duck, Michael (2007-03-04)."Book shop keeps age-old charm".The Morning Call. Lehigh Valley. Retrieved2013-10-29.
^Campbell, Thomas (1861).An Essay on English Poetry; with Notices of the British Poets (New ed.). John Murray. p. 262.
^Thomas Whincop (1747).Scanderbeg: Or, Love and Liberty. A Tragedy. Written by the Late Thomas Whincop, Esq. To which are Added a List of All the Dramatic Authors, with Some Account of Their Lives. W. Reeve at Shakespear's Head, Serjeant's Inn-Gate, in Fleet-street. p. 201.
^Al-Amili, Muhsin (1983).Aʻyān al-Shīʻahأعيان الشيعة [Notables of Shi'a] (in Arabic) (first ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Ta'afrof. p. 228.

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