The Bibliophile's Compass

🔴 1609 William Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by publisher Thomas Thorpe 🔴1882 Henrik Ibsen's play "Ghosts" (Gengangere) premieres in Chicago

🔴1709 Richard Steele's British literary and society journal "The Tatler" is first published establishing a new type of journalism featuring essays on contemporary manners 🔴1857 French novelist Gustave Flaubert's first novel and masterpiece "Madame Bovary" is published in book form 🔴1887 Henrik Ibsen's play "Rosmersholm" premieres in Oslo 🔴1944 Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind" premieres in NYC 🔴1976 Anne Rice's debut novel "Interview with a Vampire" is published by Knopf 🔴2012 Hannah Richell’s Secrets of the Tides published

1891 Henrik Ibsen's play "Hedda Gabler" premieres in Oslo, Norway 1956 Writers and poets Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge 1962 Arthur Kopit's play "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" premieres in NYC 1978 Ira Levin's "Deathtrap" premieres in NYC 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Penn Warren is named the 1st US poet laureate

1804 London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute 1876 Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt" premieres in Oslo 1914 Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks" premieres in NYC