# 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
** Conclusion 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)