This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1923.
For works published in the
United States, this year is also significant because from January 1, 2019, these were the first in 20 years to enter the
public domain. They were originally to do so in 1999, but the U.S. Congress
extended the length of copyright by twenty years.[1]
Events
January
A copy of
James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses posted to a London bookseller by the proprietor of
Davy Byrne's pub in Dublin, which features in the book, is detained as obscene by the U.K. authorities.[2]
T. E. Lawrence is forced to leave the British
Royal Air Force, his alias as 352087 Aircraftman John Hume Ross having been exposed. He joins the
Royal Tank Corps as 7875698 Private T. E. Shaw.[3]
July 6 – A
riot breaks out at the re-staging of
Tristan Tzara's
Dadaist play The Gas Heart at the Théâtre Michel, Paris, between those aligned with
André Breton and those aligned with Tzara. The conflict leads to a permanent split in the Dada movement and the founding of
Surrealism as an alternative.[8]
Summer – The teenage English brothers
Julian and
Quentin Bell begin issuing a family newspaper, the Charleston Bulletin, at their Sussex home,
Charleston Farmhouse, with occasional contributions by their maternal aunt
Virginia Woolf.
October 8 – A production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus at
The Old Vic, directed by Robert Atkins, is the first in London since 1857. It is also the first to restore the full original text since the playwright's time.
^James Campbell (November 12, 2007).
"Obituary: Norman Mailer". the Guardian.
Archived from the original on October 7, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
^Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 559.
ISBN978-9-08964-129-8.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1923.
For works published in the
United States, this year is also significant because from January 1, 2019, these were the first in 20 years to enter the
public domain. They were originally to do so in 1999, but the U.S. Congress
extended the length of copyright by twenty years.[1]
Events
January
A copy of
James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses posted to a London bookseller by the proprietor of
Davy Byrne's pub in Dublin, which features in the book, is detained as obscene by the U.K. authorities.[2]
T. E. Lawrence is forced to leave the British
Royal Air Force, his alias as 352087 Aircraftman John Hume Ross having been exposed. He joins the
Royal Tank Corps as 7875698 Private T. E. Shaw.[3]
July 6 – A
riot breaks out at the re-staging of
Tristan Tzara's
Dadaist play The Gas Heart at the Théâtre Michel, Paris, between those aligned with
André Breton and those aligned with Tzara. The conflict leads to a permanent split in the Dada movement and the founding of
Surrealism as an alternative.[8]
Summer – The teenage English brothers
Julian and
Quentin Bell begin issuing a family newspaper, the Charleston Bulletin, at their Sussex home,
Charleston Farmhouse, with occasional contributions by their maternal aunt
Virginia Woolf.
October 8 – A production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus at
The Old Vic, directed by Robert Atkins, is the first in London since 1857. It is also the first to restore the full original text since the playwright's time.
^James Campbell (November 12, 2007).
"Obituary: Norman Mailer". the Guardian.
Archived from the original on October 7, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
^Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 559.
ISBN978-9-08964-129-8.