December 14 – Rev.
John Home's blank verse tragedy Douglas is performed for the first time, in
Edinburgh, with considerable success, in spite of the opposition of the local church
presbytery, who summon Rev.
Alexander Carlyle to answer for having attended its representation.[2] However, it fails in its early promise to set up a new Scottish dramatic tradition.
New books
Fiction
Anonymous – The Life and Memoirs of Mr. Ephraim Tristram Bates