1705 in literature

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      This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1705.


      Events


      April/May – Richard Steele, having left the army, marries a wealthy widow, Margaret Stretch.
      July 29 – Richard Challoner enters the English College, Douai.
      October 7 – William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where field sports will inspire much of his poetry.
      October 30 – 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.
      December 27 – John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake is likewise adapted from the French and first performed at The Queen's Theatre.
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      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 (近松門左衛門) almost abandons writing kabuki plays and becomes a staff writer to the bunraku theatre in Osaka.
      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.


      New books




      = Prose

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      Joseph Addison – Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
      Mary Astell – The Christian Religion as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church
      Dimitrie Cantemir – Historia Hieroglyphica (the first novel to use the Romanian language)
      George Cheyne – Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion (deist)
      Samuel Clarke – A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God
      Mary Davys – 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 – The Life and Errors of John Dunton Late Citizen of London (humor)
      Edmund Gibson – Family-Devotion
      Charles Gildon – The Deist's Manual
      Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier – La Tour ténébreuse, et les jours lumineux: contes anglois
      Bernard de Mandeville – The Grumbling Hive (pirated edition)
      Delarivière Manley – The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians (roman à clef)
      John Philips
      Blenheim
      The Splendid Shilling
      Katherine Philips – Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus
      John Toland – Primitive Constitution of the Christian Church


      = Drama

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      Thomas Baker – Hampstead Heath
      Susannah Centlivre
      The Gamester (anonymously)
      The Basset-Table
      Colley Cibber – The Careless Husband
      Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Idoménée
      John Dennis – Gibraltar, or the Spanish Adventure
      George Granville – The British Enchanters
      William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston – The Lawyer’s 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 – Zelmane
      Mary Pix (attributed) – The Conquest of Spain (adapted from William Rowley's All's Lost by Lust)
      Nicholas Rowe – Ulysses
      Richard Steele – The Tender Husband
      John Vanbrugh –
      The Confederacy
      The Mistake


      = Poetry

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      Richard Blackmore – Eliza
      Daniel Defoe
      The Double Welcome
      The Dyet of Poland
      Complete Tang Poems
      Charles Johnson – The Queen; a Pindaric Ode
      Matthew Prior – An English Padlock
      Ned Ward – Hudibras Redidivus
      Isaac Watts – Horae Lyricae
      See also 1705 in poetry


      Births


      January 21 – Isaac Hawkins Browne, English poet (died 1760)
      February 13 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwillowa, Polish dramatist (died 1753)
      May – Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (died 1758)
      June 21 – David Hartley, English philosopher (died 1757)
      September 2 – Abraham Tucker (Edward Search), English philosopher (died 1774)
      October 29 – Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, German historian (died 1783)
      November 23 – Thomas Birch, English historian (died 1766)
      probable – Stephen Duck, English poet (died 1756)


      Deaths


      January 4 – Madame d'Aulnoy, French author of fairy tales (born c. 1650)
      January 10 – Étienne Pavillon, French lawyer and poet (born 1632)
      February 5 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (born 1635)
      April 2 – John Howe, English theologian (born 1630)
      May 5 – Johann Ernst Glück, German writer and translator (born 1654)
      June 10 – Michael Wigglesworth, English poet (born 1631)
      October 17 – Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and salonnière (born 1620)
      November 10 – Justine Siegemund, German writer on midwifery (born 1636)


      References

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