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{{Year nav topic5|1700|literature|poetry}}This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1700. Events- Early March - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is first performed at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.[1][2]
- May 5 – Within a few days of John Dryden's death (May 1), his last written work, The Secular Masque, is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.
- Richard Bentley becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
New booksFiction- Aphra Behn (posthumously) – Histories, Novels, and Translations (fiction and nonfiction)[3]
- Thomas Brown – Amusements Serious and Comical[3]
- Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras – Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan
- Peter Anthony Motteux, editor – The History of the Renown'd Don-Quixote de la Mancha, translated by several hands, Volume 1 (Volumes 2–4 published in 1712 in the third edition)[3]
Drama- Anonymous – Caledonia, or the Pedlar Turned Merchant
- Abel Boyer – Achilles; or, Iphigenia in Aulis: a tragedy[3]
- William Burnaby – The Reformed Wife
- Susannah Centlivre – The Perjur'd Husband; or, The Adventures of Venice: A tragedy[3]
- Colley Cibber – The Tragical History of King Richard III[3]
- William Congreve – The Way of the World, a comedy performed in March[3]
- John Dennis – Iphigenia: A tragedy, performed in December 1699[3]
- George Farquhar – The Constant Couple
- Charles Gildon – Measure for Measure
- Charles Hopkins – Friendship Improv'd; or, The Female Warriour: A tragedy, performed November 7, 1699[3]
- Francis Manning – The Generous Choice
- John Oldmixon – The Grove, or Love's Paradise published ("semi-opera", music by Henry Purcell)
- William Philips – St. Stephen's Green
- Mary Pix – The Beau Defeated
- Nicholas Rowe – The Ambitious Stepmother
- Thomas Southerne – The Fate of Capua: A tragedy, performed about April[3]
- John Vanbrugh – The Pilgrim: A comedy, anonymous; performed in April[3]
PoetrySee 1700 in poetry- Richard Blackmore – A Satyr Against Wit[3]
- Thomas Brown – A Description of Mr. Dryden's Funeral, verse[3]
- Samuel Cobb – Poetae Britannici[3]
- Daniel Defoe – The Pacificator[3]
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – Fama y obras póstumas del Fénix de México[3]
- William King – The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies (satire of Philosophical Transactions)[3]
- John Pomfret – Reason[3]
- John Tutchin – The Foreigners, published anonymously (verse satire on William III's Dutch ministers; Daniel Defoe replied in The True-Born Englishman in 1701))[3]
- Ned Ward – The Reformer[3]
Non-fiction- Mary Astell – Some Reflections upon Marriage[4]
- James Brome – Travels over England, Scotland, and Wales
- Jeremy Collier – A Second Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage &c (See 1698 in literature)[4]
- Eugenia (authorship unknown) – The Female Advocate: Or, a plea for the just liberty of the tender sex, and particularly of married women...
- Francis Moore – Vox Stellarum: An almanac for 1701[4] (first in a series of yearly "almanacs" of astrology)
- Sir William Temple – Letters Written by Sir W. Temple, and Other Ministers of State, Both at Home and Abroad (putatively edited by Jonathan Swift)[4]
- Ned Ward – A Step to the Bath: With a character of the place, published anonymously[4]
Births- February 2 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German philosopher (died 1766)
- May 25 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German theologian (died 1760)
- September 11 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (died 1748)
- November 25 – Kata Bethlen, Hungarian memoirist and correspondent (died 1759)
Deaths- January 7 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (born 1618)
- March 14 – Henry Killigrew, English clergyman, poet and playwright (born 1613)
- May 12
- Joseph Athias, Spanish-born publisher of Hebrew Bible (born 1635)
- John Dryden English poet (born 1631)
- July – Thomas Creech, English translator (born 1659; suicide)
- August 6 – Johann Beer, Austrian author, court official and composer (born 1655; hunting accident)
- August 8 – Joseph Moxon, English mathematician and lexicographer (born 1627)
- August 22 – Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican priest, poet, geographer, and historian (born 1645)
- Unknown date – Charles Hopkins, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (born 1664)
References1. ^{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Hywel |title=Cassell's Chronology of World History |location=London |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |year=2005 |isbn=0-304-35730-8 |pages=289}} 2. ^{{cite book |title=McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama |volume=4 |first=Stanley |last=Hochman |page=542}} 3. ^{{cite web |title=Fama y obras posthumas del Fenix de Mexico, decima musa, poetisa americana, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz |url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/fama-y-obras-posthumas-del-fenix-de-mexico-decima-musa-poetisa-americana-sor-juana-ines-de-la-cruz/ |website=Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes |accessdate=3 March 2019}} 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 {{cite book |editor=Cox, Michael |title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-860634-6}}
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