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811753 in literature — The year 1753 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Events* The charter of the British Museum was granted * The Act for the naturalization of Jews in England * The earliest existing diary by a woman is written in 1753 by… …
821705 in literature — The year 1705 in literature involved some significant events.Events*William Somervile inherits his father s estate, where his participation in field sports will furnish the material for much of his poetry. *Richard Steele marries wealthy widow… …
831664 in literature — The year 1664 in literature involved some significant events.Events* Sir William Davenant s dramatic opera Macbeth , adapted from Shakespeare s play, premiers on November 5. *Thomas Killigrew and the King s Company stage Killigrew s The Parson s… …
841634 in literature — The year 1634 in literature involved some significant events.Events*On January 1, the King s Men perform Cymbeline at the English Court; they act Chapman s Bussy D Ambois there on April 7. They perform Davenant s The Wits at the Blackfriars… …
851633 in literature — The year 1633 in literature involved some significant events.Events*On May 21, Ben Jonson s masque The King s Entertainment at Welbeck is performed. *In view of the condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Catholic church, René Descartes abandons… …
86Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople — Acacius (died 489) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 471 to 489. Acacius was practically the first prelate throughout the Eastern Orthodoxy and renowned for ambitious participation in the Monophysitism controversy. Acacius… …
87Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich — (1496/7 June 12, 1567), was Lord Chancellor during the reign of King Edward VI of England. He was the founder of Felsted School in Essex in 1564.Many people will know of him from the play and film A Man for All Seasons , although there is some… …
88John Philip Kemble — Infobox actor name = John Philip Kemble imagesize = 250px caption = John Philip Kemble as Hamlet, from an engraving of a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1802) birthname = birthdate = birth date|1757|2|1|df=y birthplace = Prescot, Lancashire… …
89Edward Moore — (March 22, 1712 ndash; March 1, 1757), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, the son of a dissenting minister, was born at Abingdon, Berkshire.He was the author of Fables of the Female Sex (1744), The Trial of Selim the Persian (1748), The… …
90One-upmanship — is the art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor. The term originated as the title of a book by Stephen Potter, published in 1952[1] as a follow up to The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (or the Art of Winning Games without… …
