1702 in literature
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The year 1702 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- March 11 - First publication of the Daily Courant, (First regular daily English-language newspaper.
- Sir John Vanbrugh turns from drama to architecture by designing Castle Howard.
- Accession of Queen Anne of England upon the death of William III of England.
[edit] New books
- Thomas Brown, et al. - Letters From the Dead to the Living
- Edmund Calamy - An Abridgement of Mr Baxter's History of His Life and Times
- Daniel Defoe - An Enquiry into Occasional Conformity
- - The Mock-Mourners (on the death of William III)
- - A New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty
- - Reformation of Manners
- - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
- - The Spanish Descent
- John Dennis - The Monument
- Laurence Echard - A General Ecclesiastical History
- George Farquhar - Love and Business
- Edmund Gibson - Synodus Anglicana (on the convocation)
- Charles Gildon (?) - A Comparison Between the Two Stages (on the "War of the Theatres")
- Examen Miscellaneum
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (aka "Clarendon's History")
- George Keith - The Standard of the Quakers Examined
- John Kersey - A New English Dictionary; or, a complete collection of the most proper and significant words, commonly used in the language
- Cotton Mather - Magnalia Christi Americana
- Matthew Prior - To a Young Gentleman in Love
- John Toland - Paradoxes of State
- Catherine Trotter Cockburn - A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding (re John Locke)
[edit] New drama
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - Altemira, posthumously published
- William Burnaby - The Modish Husband
- Susanna Centlivre - The Beau's Duel
- Colley Cibber - She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not
- John Dennis - The Comical Gallant
- George Farquhar - The Inconstant
- - The Twin-Rivals
- Bevil Higgons - The Generous Conqueror
- Nicholas Rowe - Tamerlane
- Sir Charles Sedley - The Tyrant King of Crete
[edit] Poetry
- See 1702 in poetry
[edit] Births
- June 26 - Philip Doddridge, Nonconformist preacher and writer (died 1751)
- date unknown
- Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, (died 1788)
- Kenrick Prescot
- Yokai Yagu, Japanese poet (died 1783)
- Margareta Momma, editor and writer
[edit] Deaths
- May 27 - Dominique Bouhours, literary critic (born 1628)
- date unknown
- Roger Morrice, journalist and diarist (born 1628)
- John Pomfret, English poet (born 1667
