- 1701 in literature
The year 1701 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
* The beginning of the
War of the Spanish Succession , which would continue and have frequent discussion in literature, until1713 .
*George Granville 's "The Jew of Venice", an adaptation of "The Merchant of Venice ", debuts atLincoln's Inn Fields withThomas Betterton as Bassanio. The adaptation is so popular that it displaces the original from the stage for the next four decades.
*Matthew Prior , English poet, enters Parliament.New books
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Lady Mary Chudleigh - "The Ladies Defiance; or, the Bride-woman's Counsellor Answer'd"
*Jeremy Collier - "The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary" (transl.)
*Daniel Defoe - "The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England"
** - "The True-Born Englishman" (satire ofJohn Tutchin )
*John Dennis - "The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry"
* John Norris - "An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World"
*John Philips - "The Sylvan Dream"
*Edward Sherburne - "The Tragedies of L. Annaeus Seneca" (transl.)
*Richard Steele - "The Christian Hero"
*Jonathan Swift - "A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions Between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome"
*William Temple - "Miscellanea: the Third Part" (posth.)
*John Toland - "The Art of Governing by Partys"
*Benjamin Whichcote - "Several Discourses" (posth.)New drama
* Thomas Baker - "The Humour of the Age"
*Colley Cibber - "Love Makes a Man"
*Catherine Trotter Cockburn - "Love at a Loss"
** - "The Unhappy Penitent"
*William Congreve - "The Judgment of Paris"
*Thomas D'Urfey - "The Bath"
*George Farquhar - "Sir Harry Wildair"
*Charles Gildon - "Love's Victim"
*George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne - "The Jew of Venice"
*Peter Anthony Motteux - "The Masque ofAcis and Galatea "
*Mary Pix - "The Double Distress"
*Nicholas Rowe - "The Ambitious Step-Mother"
*Richard Steele - "The Funeral"Poetry
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1701 in poetry "Births
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March 2 - Lewis Morris, Welsh lexicographer and writer (died 1765)Deaths
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June 2 -Madeleine de Scudéry , French salon hostess (born 1607)
*August 1 -Jan Chryzostom Pasek , memoirist (born 1636)
*September 15 -Edmé Boursault , dramatist (born 1638)
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