1705 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1705.
Events
- April/May â Richard Steele, having left the army, marries a wealthy widow, Margaret Stretch.[1]
- July 29 â Richard Challoner enters the English College, Douai.
- October 7 â William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where field sports will inspire much of his poetry.[2]
- October 30 â John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy, adapted from the French, is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket.[3][4]
- December 27 â John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake is likewise adapted from the French and first performed at The Queen's Theatre.[3][4]
- unknown dates
- George Hickes' Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus vol. 2 (published in Oxford) includes the first published reference to Beowulf and the single surviving transcript of the Finnesburg Fragment.
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon (è¿æ¾éå·¦è¡é) almost abandons writing kabuki plays and becomes a staff writer to the bunraku theatre in Osaka.[5]
- Claude Pierre Goujet, religious historian and Jansenist, enters holy orders.
- William Walsh begins a correspondence with Alexander Pope.
- Work begins on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, designed by the playwright John Vanbrugh for the Duke of Marlborough.[6]
New books
Prose
- Joseph Addison â Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
- Mary Astell â The Christian Religion as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church
- Dimitrie Cantemir â Historia Hieroglyphica (the first novel to use the Romanian language)
- George Cheyne â Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion (deist)
- Samuel Clarke â A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God
- Mary Davys â The Fugitive
- Daniel Defoe
- The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon
- A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born Englishman
- John Dunton â The Life and Errors of John Dunton Late Citizen of London (humor)
- Edmund Gibson â Family-Devotion
- Charles Gildon â The Deist's Manual
- Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier â La Tour ténébreuse, et les jours lumineux: contes anglois
- Bernard de Mandeville â The Grumbling Hive (pirated edition)
- Delarivière Manley â The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians (roman à clef)
- John Philips
- Blenheim
- The Splendid Shilling
- Katherine Philips â Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus
- John Toland â Primitive Constitution of the Christian Church
Drama
- Thomas Baker â Hampstead Heath
- Susannah Centlivre
- The Gamester (anonymously)
- The Basset-Table
- Colley Cibber â The Careless Husband
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon â Idoménée
- John Dennis â Gibraltar, or the Spanish Adventure
- George Granville â The British Enchanters
- William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston â The Lawyerâs Fortune or Love in a Hollow Tree
- Peter Anthony Motteux
- The Amorous Miser, or the Younger the Wiser
- Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (opera)
- William Mountfort â Zelmane
- Mary Pix (attributed) â The Conquest of Spain (adapted from William Rowley's All's Lost by Lust)
- Nicholas Rowe â Ulysses
- Richard Steele â The Tender Husband
- John Vanbrugh â
- The Confederacy
- The Mistake
Poetry
- Richard Blackmore â Eliza
- Daniel Defoe
- The Double Welcome
- The Dyet of Poland
- Complete Tang Poems
- Charles Johnson â The Queen; a Pindaric Ode
- Matthew Prior â An English Padlock
- Ned Ward â Hudibras Redidivus
- Isaac Watts â Horae Lyricae
See also 1705 in poetry
Births
- January 21 â Isaac Hawkins Browne, English poet (died 1760)
- February 13 â Franciszka Urszula Radziwillowa, Polish dramatist[7] (died 1753)
- May â Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (died 1758)
- June 21 â David Hartley, English philosopher (died 1757)
- September 2 â Abraham Tucker (Edward Search), English philosopher (died 1774)
- October 29 â Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, German historian (died 1783)
- November 23 â Thomas Birch, English historian (died 1766)
- probable â Stephen Duck, English poet (died 1756)
Deaths
- January 4 â Madame d'Aulnoy, French author of fairy tales (born c. 1650)[8]
- January 10 â Ãtienne Pavillon, French lawyer and poet (born 1632)
- February 5 â Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (born 1635)
- April 2 â John Howe, English theologian (born 1630)
- May 5 â Johann Ernst Glück, German writer and translator (born 1654)
- June 10 â Michael Wigglesworth, English poet (born 1631)
- October 17 â Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and salonnière (born 1620)
- November 10 â Justine Siegemund, German writer on midwifery (born 1636)[9]