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.

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)

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