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1710 in literature
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The year
1710 in literature
involved some significant events and new books.
Contents
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Events
2
New books
3
New drama
4
Births
5
Deaths
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
.
New books
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)
New drama
William Congreve
-
Semele
, an "unacted opera"
Aaron Hill
-
Elfrid
Charles Johnson
-
The Force of Friendship
Births
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
Deaths
February 16
-
Esprit Fléchier
, preacher and memoirist (born 1632)
April 28
-
Thomas Betterton
, actor (born c.
1635
)
date unknown
Henry Aldrich
, theologian and philosopher (born
1647
)
George Bull
, theologian
Jean Donneau de Visé
, journalist and historian (born 1638)
Louise de la Vallière
, later the subject of a novel by
Alexandre Dumas, père
(born
1644
)
Lady Mary Chudleigh
, author
probable
Marcus Meibomius
, Biblical and classical scholar
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