1702 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1702.
Events
- March 8 (O.S.) â Accession of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, upon the death of her brother-in-law William III.
- March 11 (O.S.) â The first regular English national newspaper, The Daily Courant, begins publication,[1] in Fleet Street in the City of London. It covers only foreign news.
- October â Jonathan Swift returns to Ireland in the company of Esther Johnson.
- unknown dates
- Ballet master John Weaver presents the burlesque Tavern Bilkers at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, the first English pantomime. It is not a success.[2]
- The first book set in the Romain du Roi Roman type, devised for use by the Imprimerie nationale in France: Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand, is printed.[3]
- Castle Howard in Yorkshire, England, is completed to the design of playwright John Vanbrugh and architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.[4]
New books
Prose
- Louise de Bossigny, comtesse d'Auneuil â La Tiranie des fées détruite (The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed)
- Thomas Brown, et al. â Letters From the Dead to the Living
- Edmund Calamy â An Abridgement of Mr Baxter's History of His Life and Times
- Daniel Defoe
- An Enquiry into Occasional Conformity
- The Mock-Mourners (on the death of William III)
- A New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty
- Reformation of Manners
- The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (anonymous; December)
- The Spanish Descent
- John Dennis â The Monument
- Laurence Echard â A General Ecclesiastical History
- George Farquhar â Love and Business
- Edmund Gibson â Synodus Anglicana (on the convocation)
- Charles Gildon (?) â A Comparison Between the Two Stages (on the "War of the Theatres")
- Examen Miscellaneum
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon â The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (1702â1704, written in the 1640s and late 1660s. Also known as Clarendon's History)
- George Keith â The Standard of the Quakers Examined
- John Kersey â A New English Dictionary; or, a complete collection of the most proper and significant words, commonly used in the language
- Cotton Mather â Magnalia Christi Americana
- Matthew Prior â To a Young Gentleman in Love
- John Toland â Paradoxes of State
- Catherine Trotter Cockburn â A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding (re John Locke)
Drama
- William Burnaby â The Modish Husband
- Susanna Centlivre â
- Colley Cibber â She Would and She Would Not
- John Dennis â The Comical Gallant
- George Farquhar
- Charles Gildon â The Patriot
- Bevil Higgons â The Generous Conqueror (printed, performed in 1701)
- Francis Manning â All for the Better
- John Oldmixon â The Governour of Cyprus
- Nicholas Rowe
- The Fair Penitent (adaptation of Massinger and Field's The Fair Penitent, performed, printed in 1703)
- Tamerlane (printed, performed in 1701)
- Sir Charles Sedley â The Tyrant King of Crete
- John Vanbrugh â The False Friend
Poetry
- Matsuo BashÅ (posthumously) â Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North)[5]
Births
- June 26 â Philip Doddridge, English religious and writer and hymnist (died 1751)
- Unknown date â Margareta Momma, Swedish journalist and publisher (died 1772)
Deaths
- January 1 â Samuel Green, American printer (born c. 1614)
- January 17 â Roger Morrice, English journalist and diarist (born 1628)
- February 17 â Peder Syv, Danish philologist, folklorist and priest (born 1631)
- April 22 â François Charpentier, French archeologist and writer (born 1620)
- May 17 (bur.) â Richard Sault, English mathematician, editor and translator (unknown year of birth)
- May 27 â Dominique Bouhours, French literary critic (born 1628)
- November â John Pomfret, English poet (born 1667)[6]