1703 in literature
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The year 1703 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- July 29, July 30, July 31 - Daniel Defoe is pilloried for seditious libel.
[edit] New books
- Bernard de Mandeville - Some Fables After the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine
- Benjamin Whichcote - Moral and Religious Aphorisms
[edit] New drama
- Thomas Baker - Tunbridge Walks
- William Burnaby - Love Betray'd
- Susanna Centlivre - The Stolen Heiress
- Thomas d'Urfey - The Old Mode & the New
- Richard Estcourt - The Fair Example
- Charles Gildon - The Patriot (adapt. Nathaniel Lee)
- John Oldmixon - The Governour of Cyprus
- Mary Pix - The Different Widows
- Nicholas Rowe - The Fair Penitent
- Richard Steele - The Tender Husband
[edit] Poetry
- Lady Mary Chudleigh - Poems on Several Occasions
- William Congreve
- A Hymn to Harmony
- The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas
- Sarah Fyge Egerton - Poems on Several Occasions
- See also 1703 in poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Joseph Addison - A Letter from Italy
- Abel Boyer - The History of the Reign of Queen Anne
- Gilbert Burnet - A Third Collection of Several Tracts and Discourses
- Edmund Calamy - A Defence of Moderate Non-Conformity
- Jeremy Collier - Mr Collier's Dissuasive from the Play-House
- Thomas Hearne - Reliquiae Bodleianae
- Benjamin Hoadly - The Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England
- William Dampier - A Voyage to New Holland, &c. in the Year 1699
- Daniel Defoe
- A Brief Explanation of a Late Pamphlet, entitled, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
- A Dialogue Between a Dissenter and the Observator
- A Hymn to the Funeral Sermon
- Hymn to the Pillory
- More Reformation: A satyr upon himself
- The Shortest Way to Peace and Union
- A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born English-man
- John Dunton - The Shortest Way with Whores and Rogues (sat. of Defoe)
- Ned Ward - The Secret History of the Calves-head Clubb (vs. Republicanism)
[edit] Births
- March 23 - Cajsa Warg, Swedish cookbook author (died 1769)
- June 28 - John Wesley, writer of sermons and hymns (died 1791)
- October 5 - Jonathan Edwards, theologian (died 1758)
- November 26 - Theophilus Cibber, playwright (died 1758)
- date unknown
- Henry Brooke, novelist and dramatist (died 1783)
- Charles Clémencet, historian (died 1778)
- Thomas Cooke, translator of Hesiod (died 1756)
- İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, Sufi philosopher (died 1780)
- Ando Shoeki, philosopher (died 1762)
- Gilbert West, poet (died 1756)
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Johann Georg Graevius, critic (born 1632)
- March 3 - Robert Hooke, natural philosopher (born 1635)
- March 5 - Gabrielle Suchon, moral philosopher (born 1631)
- April 20 - Lancelot Addison, father of Joseph Addison (born 1632)
- May 8 - Vincent Alsop, religious writer and wit (born c.1630)
- May 16 - Charles Perrault, French writer of fairy tales (born 1628)
- May 26 - Samuel Pepys, diarist (born 1633)
- November 19 - the original "Man in the Iron Mask"
- date unknown - Samuel Johnson, pamphleteer (born 1649)
- probable - John Crowne, dramatist
