1700 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1700.
Events
- February 1 â Richard Bentley becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]
- Early March - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is first performed at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.[2][3]
- May 5 â Within days of John Dryden's death on May 1, his last written work, The Secular Masque, is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.
New books
Fiction
- Aphra Behn (died 1689) â Histories, Novels, and Translations (fiction and nonfiction)[4]
- Tom Brown â Amusements Serious and Comical[4]
- Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras â Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan
- Peter Anthony Motteux, editor â The History of the Renown'd Don-Quixote de la Mancha, translated by several hands, Volume 1 (Volumes 2â4 published in 1712 in the third edition)[4]
Drama
- Anonymous â Caledonia, or the Pedlar Turned Merchant
- Abel Boyer â Achilles; or, Iphigenia in Aulis: a tragedy[4]
- William Burnaby â The Reformed Wife
- Susannah Centlivre â The Perjur'd Husband; or, The Adventures of Venice: A tragedy[4]
- Colley Cibber â The Tragical History of King Richard III[4]
- William Congreve â The Way of the World, a comedy performed in March[4]
- John Dennis â Iphigenia: A tragedy, performed in December 1699[4]
- George Farquhar â The Constant Couple
- Charles Gildon â Measure for Measure
- Charles Hopkins â Friendship Improv'd; or, The Female Warriour: A tragedy, performed November 7, 1699[4]
- Francis Manning â The Generous Choice
- John Oldmixon â The Grove, or Love's Paradise published ("semi-opera", music by Henry Purcell)
- William Philips â St. Stephen's Green
- Mary Pix â The Beau Defeated
- Nicholas Rowe â The Ambitious Stepmother
- Thomas Southerne â The Fate of Capua: A tragedy, performed about April[4]
- John Vanbrugh â The Pilgrim: A comedy, anonymous; performed in April[4]
Poetry
See 1700 in poetry
- Richard Blackmore â A Satyr Against Wit[4]
- Thomas Brown â A Description of Mr. Dryden's Funeral, verse[4]
- Samuel Cobb â Poetae Britannici[4]
- Daniel Defoe â The Pacificator[4]
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz â Fama y obras póstumas del Fénix de México[5]
- William King â The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies (satire of Philosophical Transactions)[4]
- John Pomfret â Reason[4]
- John Tutchin â The Foreigners, published anonymously (verse satire on William III's Dutch ministers; Daniel Defoe replied in The True-Born Englishman in 1701))[4]
- Ned Ward â The Reformer[4]
Non-fiction
- Mary Astell â Some Reflections upon Marriage[4]
- James Brome â Travels over England, Scotland, and Wales
- Jeremy Collier â 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) â The Female Advocate: Or, a plea for the just liberty of the tender sex, and particularly of married women...
- Francis Moore â Vox Stellarum: An almanac for 1701[4] (first in a series of yearly "almanacs" of astrology)
- Sir William Temple â Letters Written by Sir W. Temple, and Other Ministers of State, Both at Home and Abroad (putatively edited by Jonathan Swift)[4]
- Pavao Ritter VitezoviÄ â Croatia Rediviva
- Ned Ward â A Step to the Bath: With a character of the place, published anonymously[4]
- Anonymous; perhaps Daniel Defoe â Castration of Popish Ecclesiastics
Births
- February 2 â Johann Christoph Gottsched, German philosopher (died 1766)
- May 25 â Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German theologian (died 1760)
- September 11 â James Thomson, Scottish poet (died 1748)
- November 25 â Kata Bethlen, Hungarian memoirist and correspondent (died 1759)
Deaths
- January 7 â Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (born 1618)[6]
- March 14 â 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 â Thomas Creech, English translator (born 1659; suicide)
- August 6 â Johann Beer, Austrian author, court official and composer (born 1655; hunting accident)
- August 8 â Joseph Moxon, English mathematician and lexicographer (born 1627)
- August 22 â Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican priest, poet, geographer, and historian (born 1645)[7]
- Unknown date â Charles Hopkins, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (born 1664)[8]