1710 in literature
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The year 1710 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
- 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)
[edit] New drama
- William Congreve - Semele, an "unacted opera"
- Aaron Hill - Elfrid
- Charles Johnson - The Force of Friendship
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
