1743 in Literature - New Drama

New Drama

  • William Collins - Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hanmer (in re Hanmer's "deluxe" edition of the works of William Shakespeare)
  • Charles Simon Favart - Le Coq du village
  • Henry Fielding - The Wedding-Day
  • John Gay - The Distress'd Wife
  • Voltaire - Mérope

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