1706 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1706.
Events[edit]
- April 8 – George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer is performed for the first time, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London.[1]
- April/May – Philosopher Samuel Clarke attacks the views of Henry Dodwell on the immortality of the soul.[2]
- September 13 – Daniel Defoe leaves England for Edinburgh, Scotland, where he acts as a government agent to promote ratification of the Treaty of Union.[3]
- unknown date – The first translation of the New Testament into the Upper Sorbian language, made by pastor Michał Frencel who dies this year, is published by his son Abraham in Zittau.[4]
New books[edit]
Prose[edit]
- Anonymous – The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (serial, the first English translation of One Thousand and One Nights, taken from the first French translation)
- Samuel Clarke – A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion
- Stephen Clay – An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King
- Daniel Defoe
- An Essay at Removing National Prejudices Against a Union with Scotland
- A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal (attrib)
- John Dennis – Essay on the Operas after the Italian Manner
- White Kennett – The History of England from the Commencement of the Reign of Charles I to the End of William III
- John Locke – Posthumous Works of Mr John Locke
- Simon Ockley – Introductio ad linguas orientates
- Jonathan Swift – Baucis and Philemon
- Matthew Tindal – The Rights of the Christian Church Asserted
- Ned Ward – The London Spy
Drama[edit]
- Thomas Betterton – The Amorous Widow
- Susanna Centlivre –
- Love at a Venture
- The Platonick Lady
- Colley Cibber – Perolla and Izadora
- Catherine Trotter Cockburn – The Revolution of Sweden
- Antoine Danchet – Cyrus
- Thomas D'Urfey – Wonders in the Sun (opera)
- George Farquhar – The Recruiting Officer
- George Granville – The British Enchanters, or No Magic Like Love
- Delarivière Manley – Almyna, or The Arabian Vow
- Mary Pix (attr.) – Adventures in Madrid
- Jean-François Regnard – Le Légataire universel (The Residuary Legatee)
- John Vanbrugh – The Mistake
- José de Cañizares – El pastelero de Madrigal
Poetry[edit]
- Richard Blackmore – An Advice to the Poets: a poem occasioned by the wonderful success of Her Majesty's arms, under the conduct of the Duke of Marlborough in Flanders
- William Congreve – A Pindarique Ode.... The Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough
- Daniel Defoe
- Caledonia
- A Hymn to Peace
- Jure Divino (on divine right)
- The Vision (on national union)
- John Dennis – The Battle of Ramillia
- Mihai Iștvanovici – Stihuri politice (Political Verse)
- John Philips – Cerealia: An imitation of Milton
- Matthew Prior – The Squirrel
- Thomas Tickell – Oxford
- Isaac Watts – Horae Lyricae[5]
Births[edit]
- January 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American polymath and politician (died 1790)
- February 10 – Benjamin Hoadly, English physician and dramatist (died 1757)
- November 8 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher and jurist (died 1772)
- December 17 – Émilie du Châtelet, French writer and translator (died 1749)
Deaths[edit]
- January 21 – Adrien Baillet, French critic (born 1649)
- February 27 – John Evelyn, English diarist (born 1620)
- August 6 – Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, French natural philosopher (born 1624)
- December 8 – Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye, French historian (born 1634)
- December 28 – Pierre Bayle, French encyclopedist and philosopher (born 1647)[6]
- unknown dates
- John Phillips, English satirist (born 1631)[7]
- Rahman Baba, Indian Pashto poet (born 1632)
- Guillaume Vandive, French printer and bookseller (born 1680)
References[edit]
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Wigelsworth, Jeffrey (19 July 2013). Deism in Enlightenment England: Theology, politics, and Newtonian public science. Manchester University Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-84779-730-8. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
- ^ Novak, Maximillian E. (2003). Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions: His Life and Ideas. Oxford University Press. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-19-926154-3. Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
- ^ Corbett, Greville; Comrie, Bernard (September 2003). The Slavonic Languages. Routledge. p. 596. ISBN 978-1-136-86137-6. Archived from the original on 2020-07-24. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
- ^ Rivers, Isabel (2004). "Watts, Isaac (1674–1748)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28888. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2011-12-09. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ van Bunge, Wiep; Bots, Hans (4 June 2008). Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), Le Philosophe de Rotterdam: Philosophy, Religion and Reception: Selected Papers of the Tercentenary Conference Held at Rotterdam, 7–8 December 2006. Brill. p. 7. ISBN 90-04-16536-3. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
- ^ Lee, Sidney (1896). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 45. London: Smith, Elder & Co.