1726 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1726.

Events

February – Lavinia Fenton makes her stage debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's The Orphan at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
April 5 – Publication in London of Lewis Theobald's Shakespeare Restored, or A Specimen of the Many Errors As Well Committed as Unamended by Mr Pope in his Late Edition of this Poet; Designed Not only to correct the said Edition, but to restore the True Reading of Shakespeare in all the Editions ever yet published.
May 1 – Voltaire arrives for a 3-year stay in England.
May 25 – Britain's first circulating library^[1] is opened in Edinburgh (Scotland)^[2] by poet and bookseller Allan Ramsay.
October 26 – Publication in London (anonymously in two volumes) of Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships; it sells out within a week.
Teatro Valle opens in Rome.
Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism to receive a church pension and annuls her marriage.
The Gujin Tushu Jicheng, an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using copper-based movable type printing.

Anonymous – Gulliver Decyphered
Penelope Aubin – The Life and Adventures of the Lady Lucy (novel)
Jane Barker – The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (sequel to 1723's A Patch-Work Screen)
William Rufus Chetwood – The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle (fiction, sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe)
Eliza Haywood
- The City Jilt
- The Mercenary Lover
Jonathan Swift
- Gulliver's Travels
- Cadenus and Vanessa
Lewis Theobald – Shakespeare Restored
José Francisco de Isla – Papeles critico-apologéticos
Diego de Torres Villarroel – El ermitaño y Torres
Martín Sarmiento – Reflexiones sobre el Diccionario de la lengua castellana que compuso la Real Academia en el año de 1726

John Balguy – A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion
Joseph Butler – Fifteen Sermons
Anthony Collins – The Scheme of Literal Prophecy
Corporate authorship – The Craftsman (periodical associated with Henry St. John)
Daniel Defoe
- The Political History of the Devil
- A System of Magick
John Dennis – The Stage Defended (reply to Law, below)
William Law
- The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage
- A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection
William Penn
- Fruits of a Father's Love
- A Collection of the Works of William Penn
- (with William Pulteney) – The Discovery
Joseph Spence – An Essay on Pope's Odyssey (concerning a translation of Homer's Odyssey by Alexander Pope)

March 26 – Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist and architect (born 1664)
April 5 – Ludwig Babenstuber, German theologian and philosopher (born 1660)
April 26 – Jeremy Collier, English theologian and critic (born 1650)
May 20 – Nicholas Brady, Irish poet (born 1659)
July 5 – Domenico Viva, Italian theologian (born 1648)
July 6 – Humfrey Wanley, English librarian and palaeographer (born 1672)
December 2 – Samuel Penhallow, English historian (born 1665)
December 11 – Jacques Bouillart, French Benedictine historian (born 1669)
Unknown dates
- Charles Shadwell, English dramatist (unknown year of birth)
- Daniel Whitby, English theologian (born 1638)

↑ Altick, Richard D. (1957). The English Common Reader. University of Chicago Press.
↑ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 2014-08-15.

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