1706 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1706.
Events
- April 8 â George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer is performed for the first time, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London.[1]
- April/May â Philosopher Samuel Clarke attacks the views of Henry Dodwell on the immortality of the soul.[2]
- September 13 â Daniel Defoe leaves England for Edinburgh, Scotland, where he acts as a government agent to promote ratification of the Treaty of Union.[3]
- unknown date â The first translation of the New Testament into the Upper Sorbian language, made by pastor MichaÅ Frencel who dies this year, is published by his son Abraham in Zittau.[4]
New books
Prose
- Anonymous â The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (serial, the first English translation of One Thousand and One Nights, taken from the first French translation)
- Samuel Clarke â A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion
- Stephen Clay â An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King
- Daniel Defoe
- An Essay at Removing National Prejudices Against a Union with Scotland
- A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal (attrib)
- John Dennis â Essay on the Operas after the Italian Manner
- White Kennett â The History of England from the Commencement of the Reign of Charles I to the End of William III
- John Locke â Posthumous Works of Mr John Locke
- Simon Ockley â Introductio ad linguas orientates
- Jonathan Swift â Baucis and Philemon
- Matthew Tindal â The Rights of the Christian Church Asserted
- Ned Ward â The London Spy
Drama
- Thomas Betterton â The Amorous Widow
- Susanna Centlivre â
- Colley Cibber â Perolla and Izadora
- Catherine Trotter Cockburn â The Revolution of Sweden
- Antoine Danchet â Cyrus
- Thomas D'Urfey â Wonders in the Sun (opera)
- George Farquhar â The Recruiting Officer
- George Granville â The British Enchanters, or No Magic Like Love
- Delarivière Manley â Almyna, or The Arabian Vow
- Mary Pix (attr.) â Adventures in Madrid
- Jean-François Regnard â Le Légataire universel (The Residuary Legatee)
- John Vanbrugh â The Mistake
- José de Cañizares â El pastelero de Madrigal
Poetry
- Richard Blackmore â An Advice to the Poets: a poem occasioned by the wonderful success of Her Majesty's arms, under the conduct of the Duke of Marlborough in Flanders
- William Congreve â A Pindarique Ode.... The Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough
- Daniel Defoe
- Caledonia
- A Hymn to Peace
- Jure Divino (on divine right)
- The Vision (on national union)
- John Dennis â The Battle of Ramillia
- Mihai IÈtvanovici â Stihuri politice (Political Verse)
- John Philips â Cerealia: An imitation of Milton
- Matthew Prior â The Squirrel
- Thomas Tickell â Oxford
- Isaac Watts â Horae Lyricae[5]
Births
- January 17 â Benjamin Franklin, American polymath and politician (died 1790)
- February 10 â Benjamin Hoadly, English physician and dramatist (died 1757)
- November 8 â Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher and jurist (died 1772)
- December 17 â Ãmilie du Châtelet, French writer and translator (died 1749)
Deaths
- January 21 â Adrien Baillet, French critic (born 1649)
- February 27 â John Evelyn, English diarist (born 1620)
- August 6 â Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, French natural philosopher (born 1624)
- December 8 â Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye, French historian (born 1634)
- December 28 â Pierre Bayle, French encyclopedist and philosopher (born 1647)[6]
- unknown dates
- John Phillips, English satirist (born 1631)[7]
- Rahman Baba, Indian Pashto poet (born 1632)
- Guillaume Vandive, French printer and bookseller (born 1680)