1710 in literature

1710 in literature

The year 1710 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*After Thomas Betterton's death in April, the great Shakespearean roles he had dominated for a generation were divided up among fellow actors Barton Booth, Robert Wilks, and John Mills. (Mills got "Macbeth".)
*Colley Cibber becomes manager of Drury Lane theatre.
*Antoine Houdar de la Motte is elected to the Académie française.

New books

* Joseph Addison - "The Whig Examiner" (periodical)
* George Berkeley - "Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge"
* Lady Mary Chudleigh - "Essays Upon Several Occasions"
* Colley Cibber - "The Secret History of Arlus and Odolphus" (roman á clef)
* Anthony Collins - "A Vindication of the Divine Attributes"
* Shaftesbury - "Soliloquy"
* Daniel Defoe - "An Essay Upon Public Credit" (on the balance of trade)
* George Farquhar - "Barcellona"
* George Hickes - "Collection of Controversial Letters"
* John Leland - "The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary"
* Gottfried Leibniz - "Théodicée" (Theodicy)
* Delarivière Manley - "Memoirs of Europe" (satire)
* Cotton Mather - "Bonifacius: Essays To Do Good"
* Ambrose Philips - "Pastorals" (igniting the argument with Alexander Pope)
* Jonathan Swift - "Journal to Stella" begun (not officially published until over a century after his death)
** - "A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick
* Christian Wolff - "Anfangsgründe aller mathematischen Wissenschaften"
*Various - "The Examiner - Remarks upon Papers and Occurrences" (periodical)
** - "The Medley" (a miscellany by Arthur Manwaring and other whigs)

New drama

* William Congreve - "Semele", an "unacted opera"
* Aaron Hill - "Elfrid"
* Charles Johnson - "The Force of Friendship"

Births

*April 13 - Jonathan Carver, explorer and writer (died 1780)
*April 26, Thomas Reid, Scottish philosophical writer (died 1796)
*October 24 - Alban Butler, hagiographer (died 1773)
*November 8 - Sarah Fielding, novelist (died 1768)
*November 13 - Charles Simon Favart, dramatist (died 1792)
*November 27 - Robert Lowth, poet and grammarian
*"date unknown"
**George Alexander Stevens, dramatist and poet
**Floyer Sydenham, classical scholar
**Thomas Arne, composer

Deaths

*February 16 - Esprit Fléchier, preacher and memoirist (born 1632)
*April 28 - Thomas Betterton, actor (born c.1635)
*"date unknown"
**Henry Aldrich, theologian and philosopher (born 1647)
**George Bull, theologian
**Jean Donneau de Visé, journalist and historian (born 1638)
**Louise de la Vallière, later the subject of a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père (born 1644)
**Lady Mary Chudleigh, author
*"probable"
**Marcus Meibomius, Biblical and classical scholar


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