1702 in literature

none July 2020 1702 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1702. Events March 8 (O.S.) – Accession of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, upon the death of her brother-in-law William III. March 11 (O.S.) – The first regular English national newspaper, The Daily Courant, begins publication,Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 in Fleet Street in the City of London. It covers only foreign news. October – Jonathan Swift returns to Ireland in the company of Esther Johnson. unknown dates Ballet master John Weaver presents the burlesque Tavern Bilkers at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, the first English pantomime. It is not a success.William J. Burling A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737 https://books.google.com/books?id=HMQJxeNpHR0C&pg=PA66 1992 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 978-0-8386-3451-6 66 The first book set in the Romain du Roi Roman type, devised for use by the Imprimerie nationale in France: Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand, is printed.Philip B. Meggs Alston W. Purvis Meggs' History of Graphic Design https://books.google.com/books?id=KCsuDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT46 16 May 2016 John Wiley & Sons 978-1-119-13623-1 46 Castle Howard in Yorkshire, England, is completed to the design of playwright John Vanbrugh and architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 201–202 0-7126-5616-2 New books Prose Louise de Bossigny, comtesse d'Auneuil – La Tiranie des fées détruite (The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed) 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 (anonymous; December) 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 (1702–1704, written in the 1640s and late 1660s. Also known as 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) Drama William Burnaby – The Modish Husband Susanna Centlivre – The Beau's Duel The Stolen Heiress Colley Cibber – She Would and She Would Not John Dennis – The Comical Gallant George Farquhar The Inconstant The Twin Rivals Charles Gildon – The Patriot Bevil Higgons – The Generous Conqueror (printed, performed in 1701) Francis Manning – All for the Better John Oldmixon – The Governour of Cyprus Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent (adaptation of Massinger and Field's The Fair Penitent, performed, printed in 1703) Tamerlane (printed, performed in 1701) Sir Charles Sedley – The Tyrant King of Crete John Vanbrugh – The False Friend Poetry 1702 in poetry Matsuo Bashō (posthumously) – Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North)As "Narrow Road to the Interior", Bolitho, Harold (2003), in Treasures of the Yenching: seventy-fifth anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Chinese University Press. 978-962-996-102-2. p. 35. Births June 26 – Philip Doddridge, English religious and writer and hymnist (died 1751) Unknown date – Margareta Momma, Swedish journalist and publisher (died 1772) Deaths January 1 – Samuel Green, American printer (born c. 1614) January 17 – Roger Morrice, English journalist and diarist (born 1628) February 17 – Peder Syv, Danish philologist, folklorist and priest (born 1631) April 22 – François Charpentier, French archeologist and writer (born 1620) May 17 (bur.) – Richard Sault, English mathematician, editor and translator (unknown year of birth) May 27 – Dominique Bouhours, French literary critic (born 1628) November – John Pomfret, English poet (born 1667)William Austin The History of Luton and Its Hamlets: Being a History of the Old Parish and Manor of Luton in Bedfordshire https://books.google.com/books?id=EfzFAAAAMAAJ 1928 County Press 43 References