title: 1767 in literature
text: # 1767 in literature
  
  This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1767.
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 29 – The former watchmaker and entrepreneur Pierre Beaumarchais has his first full-length drama, Eugénie, premièred at the Comédie-Française. Revised in two days, it establishes his reputation in this field.
  * February – King George III of Great Britain requests an introduction to Samuel Johnson from his librarian, Frederick Augusta Barnard. They meet in the library of the Queen's House.
  * April 24 – First professional performance of a play by an American, The Prince of Parthia by Thomas Godfrey (died 1763), at the new Southwark Theatre in Philadelphia with Lewis Hallam Jr. in a leading rôle.
  * December 7 – John Street Theatre (Manhattan), the first permanent theater in New York City, is opened by David Douglass with a performance of The Beaux' Stratagem.
  * Construction of Teatro Real Coliseo de Carlos III de Aranjuez, the first enclosed theatre in Spain, begins.
  * Richard Price's volume of sermons, Four Dissertations, is published by Andrew Millar and Thomas Cadell in London, and he joins the "Bowood circle", a group of liberal intellectuals around William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, at Bowood House in Wiltshire (England) and corresponds with Benjamin Franklin.
  * Publication of the Epistles and Book of Revelation in Manx as Sceeuyn Paul yn Ostyl gys ny Romanee completes the first translation of the New Testament into that language.
  * Publication of the first secular prose book in any of the Sorbian languages by Jurij Mjeń.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Fiction
  
  * James Boswell – Dorando
  * Phebe Gibbes – The Woman of Fashion
  * Hugh Kelly – Memoirs of a Magdalen
  * Susannah Minifie – Barford Abbey
  * Frances Sheridan
     * Continuation of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (posthumous)
     * The History of Nourjahad
  * Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman vol. ix
  * Unca Eliza Winkfield (pseudonym) – The Female American
  * Arthur Young – The Adventures of Emmera
  
  ### Drama
  
  * Pierre Beaumarchais – Eugénie
  * Richard Bentley – Philodamus
  * Isaac Bickerstaffe – Lace in the City
  * George Colman the Elder
     * The English Merchant
     * The Oxonian in Town
  * David Garrick – Cymon
  * Hall Hartson – The Countess of Salisbury
  * Thomas Hull – The Perplexities
  * William Kenrick – The Widowed Wife
  * Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – Minna von Barnhelm
  * Arthur Murphy – The School for Guardians
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Michael Bruce – Elegy Written in Spring
  * Francis Fawkes – Partridge-Shooting
  * Oliver Goldsmith, ed. – The Beauties of English Poesy
  * Richard Jago – Edge-Hill
  * Henry Jones – Kew Garden
  * Christopher Smart (translation) – The Works of Horace, Translated into Verse
  
  ### Non-fiction
  
  * John Byrom – The Universal English Short-hand
  * William Duff – An Essay on Original Genius
  * Richard Farmer – An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare
  * Adam Ferguson – An Essay on the History of Civil Society
  * Baron d'Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry – Christianisme dévoilé
  * Catharine Macaulay – Loose Remarks on Mr. Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society (on Hobbes's 1651 work)
  * Moses Mendelssohn – Phädon
  * Joseph Priestley – The History and Present State of Electricity
  * William Warburton – Sermons and Discourses
  * Arthur Young – The Farmer's Letters to the People of England
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 1 – Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (died 1849)
  * February 4 – Andrew Marschalk, American printer (died 1838)
  * February 6 – Saul Ascher, German political writer and translator (died 1822)
  * March 1 – Alexander Balfour, Scottish novelist, short-story writer and poet (died 1829)
  * April 9 – Joseph Fiévée, French journalist, essayist, novelist and dramatist (died 1839)
  * April 24 – Dorothy Ripley, English missionary and reformist writer (died 1832)
  * September 6 – Thomas Bayly Howell, English legal writer (died 1815)
  * September 8 – August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet and translator (died 1845)
  * September 10 – Melchiorre Gioia, Italian philosophical writer (died 1829)
  * October 25 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French novelist (died 1830)
  * November 26 (bapt.) – Elizabeth Bentley, English poet (died 1839)
  * December 8 – Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer (died 1825)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 16 – David Erskine Baker, English writer on drama and translator (born 1730)
  * February 28 – Charles Balguy, English translator and medical writer (born 1708)
  * April 27 – Johann Gottlob Carpzov, German Biblical scholar (born 1679)
  * July 15 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and hymnist (born 1746)
  * July 26 – Paul Gottlieb Werlhof, German poet and physician (born 1699)
  * August 21 – Thomas Osborne, English publisher and bookseller (born 1704)
  * September 11 – Theophilus Evans, Welsh historian and cleric (born 1693)
  * October 1 – Léon Ménard, French historical writer and lawyer (born 1706)
  * December 22 – John Newbery, English children's author and publisher (born 1713)
  