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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1700.

Events

• Early March - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is first performed at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.^[1][2]
• May 5 – Within a few days of John Dryden's death (May 1), his last written work, The Secular Masque, is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.
• Richard Bentley becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

New books

Fiction

• Aphra Behn – Histories, Novels, and Translations (posthumously published (died in 1689), fiction and nonfiction^[3]
• Thomas Brown – Amusements Serious and Comical^[3]
• Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras – Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan
• Peter Anthony Motteux, editor – The History of the Renown'd Don-Quixote de la Mancha, translated by several hands, Volume 1 (Volumes 2–4 published in 1712 in the third edition)^[3]

Drama

• Anonymous – Caledonia, or the Pedlar Turned Merchant
• Abel Boyer – Achilles; or, Iphigenia in Aulis: a tragedy^[3]
• William Burnaby – The Reformed Wife
• Susannah Centlivre – The Perjur'd Husband; or, The Adventures of Venice: A tragedy^[3]
• Colley Cibber – The Tragical History of King Richard III^[3]
• William Congreve – The Way of the World, a comedy performed in March^[3]
• John Dennis – Iphigenia: A tragedy, performed in December 1699^[3]
• George Farquhar – The Constant Couple
• Charles Gildon – Measure for Measure
• Charles Hopkins – Friendship Improv'd; or, The Female Warriour: A tragedy, performed November 7, 1699^[3]
• Francis Manning – The Generous Choice
• John Oldmixon – The Grove, or Love's Paradise published (a "semi-opera" with music by Henry Purcell)
• William Philips – St. Stephen's Green
• Mary Pix – The Beau Defeated
• Nicholas Rowe – The Ambitious Stepmother
• Thomas Southerne – The Fate of Capua: A tragedy, performed c. April^[3]
• John Vanbrugh – The Pilgrim: A comedy, anonymous; performed in April^[3]

Poetry

See 1700 in poetry

• Richard Blackmore – A Satyr Against Wit^[3]
• Thomas Brown – A Description of Mr. Dryden's Funeral, verse^[3]
• Samuel Cobb – Poetae Britannici^[3]
• Daniel Defoe – The Pacificator^[3]
• William King – The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies (satire of Philosophical Transactions)^[3]
• John Pomfret – Reason^[3]
• John Tutchin – The Foreigners, published anonymously (a verse satire on William III's Dutch ministers; provoked Daniel Defoe to reply with The True-Born Englishman in 1701))^[3]
• Ned Ward, The Reformer^[3]
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Fama y obras póstumas del Fénix de México

Non-fiction

• Mary Astell – Some Reflections upon Marriage^[3]
• Aphra Behn – Histories, Novels, and Translations (posthumously published (died in 1689), fiction and nonfiction^[3]
• Jeremy Collier – A Second Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage &c (See 1698 in literature)^[3]
• Francis Moore – Vox Stellarum: An almanac for 1701^[3] (first in a series of yearly "almanacs" of astrology)
• Sir William Temple – Letters Written by Sir W. Temple, and Other Ministers of State, Both at Home and Abroad (putatively edited by Jonathan Swift)^[3]
• Ned Ward – A Step to the Bath: With a character of the place, published anonymously^[3]

Births

• February 2 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German philosopher (died 1766)
• May 25 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German theologian (died 1760)
• September 11 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (died 1748)
• November 25 – Kata Bethlen, Hungarian memoirist and correspondent (died 1759)

Deaths

• January 7 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (born 1618)
• March 14 – Henry Killigrew, English clergyman, poet and playwright (born 1613)
• May 12
  • Joseph Athias, Spanish-born publisher of Hebrew Bible (born 1635)
  • John Dryden English poet (born 1631)
• July – Thomas Creech, English translator (born 1659; suicide)
• August 8 – Joseph Moxon, English mathematician and lexicographer (born 1627)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 289. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Hochman, Stanley. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. 4. p. 542.
3. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.