1705 in literature

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

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Events

• April/May – Richard Steele, having left the army, marries a wealthy widow, Margaret Stretch.[1]
• 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.[2]
• 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.[3][4]
• December 27 – John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake is likewise adapted from the French and first performed at The Queen's Theatre.[3][4]
• unknown dates
  • 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.[5]
  • 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.[6]

New books

Prose

• 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 (prose)
• Daniel Defoe
  • The Consolidator
  • 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
• Charles Johnson – The Queen; a Pindaric Ode
• 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
• Matthew Prior (posthumous) – An English Padlock
• John Toland – Primitive Constitution of the Christian Church

Drama

• 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)
• Richard Steele – The Tender Husband
• John Vanbrugh – The Mistake

Poetry

• Richard Blackmore – Eliza
• Daniel Defoe
  • The Double Welcome
  • The Dyet of Poland
• Quan Tangshi
• 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[7] (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)[8]
• 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)[9]

References

1. Charles A Knight (30 September 2015). A Political Biography of Richard Steele. Routledge. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-317-31489-9.
2. Warwick county (1847). Notices of the churches of Warwickshire... p. 126.
3. "Who was John Vanbrugh?". Britain Unlimited. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
4. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama (2nd ed.).
5. Encyclopædia Britannica.
6. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
7. Celia Hawkesworth, A History of Central European Women's Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, ISBN 0-333-77809-X
8. Anne Commire (8 October 1999). Women in World History. Gale. p. 626. ISBN 978-0-7876-4061-3.
9. Lynne Tatlock (translator): The Court Midwife: Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 2005: ISBN 0-226-75709-9