On this day in literature
March 5
In literary history
- 1750Richard III was performed in New York, the first documented Shakespeare production on American soil. The company used Colley Cibber's butchered adaptation, cutting two-thirds of Shakespeare's lines and inventing an entirely new first act. The colonists gave it eight nights.
Writers born on March 5
- Frank Norris (1870),
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922),
- Mark Z. Danielewski (1966)