1703 in literature

1703 in literature

The year 1703 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* July 29, July 30, July 31 - Daniel Defoe is pilloried for seditious libel.

New books

* 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"
* Lady Mary Chudleigh - "Poems on Several Occasions"
* Jeremy Collier - "Mr Collier's Dissuasive from the Play-House"
* William Congreve - "A Hymn to Harmony"
** - "The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas"
* 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 Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born English-Man"
** - "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)
* Sarah Fyge Egerton - "Poems on Several Occasions"
* Thomas Hearne - "Reliquiae Bodleianae"
* Benjamin Hoadly - "The Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England"
* Bernard de Mandeville - "Some Fables After the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine"
* Ned Ward - "The Secret History of the Calves-head Clubb" (vs. Republicanism)
* Benjamin Whichcote - "Moral and Religious Aphorisms"

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"

Births

* June 28 - John Wesley, writer of sermons and hymns (died 1791)
* November 26 - Theophilus Cibber, playwright (died 1758)
* Henry Brooke
* Thomas Cooke (1703–1756) - translator of Hesiod
* Gilbert West

Deaths

*January 11 - Johann Georg Graevius, critic (born 1632)
* 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"
* John Wallis
*"probable" - John Crowne, dramatist


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