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1707 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1707.

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Events

  • March 8 – George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Beaux' Stratagem is first staged, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London.
  • May 1 – The new sovereign state of the Kingdom of Great Britain comes into being as a result of the Acts of Union, which combine the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into a single realm under Anne, Queen of Great Britain, with the support of Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot.
  • September 9 – Richard Steele marries Mary Scurlock – one of the most famous literary marriages of all time, thanks to their correspondence.
  • Controversial publisher Edmund Curll announces to the press that he will publish Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions –- even though the rights belong to someone else.

    • Prose

  • Anonymous
  • Memoirs of the Court of England (translation)
  • The History of the Earl of Warwick; Sirnam'd the King-maker (transl.)
  • Richard Baxter – The Poetical Works of the Late Richard Baxter
  • Thomas Brown – The Works of Mr Thomas Brown
  • Anthony Collins – Essay Concerning the Use of Reason
  • Jean de Beaugué – Histoire de la guerre d'Ecosse (translation by Patrick Abercromby)
  • François Pétis de la Croix (translated & adapted) – Contes Turcs
  • Thomas D'Urfey – Stories, Moral and Comical
  • Laurence Echard – The History of England vol. 1
  • Aaron Hart – Urim v'tumim (the first book printed in Hebrew in London)
  • Delarivière Manley – The Lady's Pacquet of Letters (fiction)
  • Isaac Newton – Arithmetica Universalis
  • John Oldmixon – The Muses Mercury (periodical)
  • Matthäus Schiner, A Philippick Oration to Incite the English Against the French (translated by John Toland)
  • Dr. Thomas Smith – Vitæ quorundam Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum
  • Jonathan Swift – A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
  • Matthew Tindal – A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church (seq. to 1706 work)
  • Catherine Trotter – A Discourse Concerning a Guide in Controversies
  • Isaac Watts – Hymns and Spiritual Songs (frequently reprinted thereafter)
  • John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester – The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon

    • Drama

  • Joseph Addison – Rosamund (opera)
  • Susanna Centlivre – The Platonick Lady
  • Colley Cibber
  • The Lady's Last Stake
  • The Double Gallant
  • Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Atrée et Thyeste
  • George Farquhar – The Beaux' Stratagem
  • Peter Anthony Motteux – Thomyris, Queen of Scythia (opera)
  • Nicholas Rowe – The Royal Convert
  • Nahum Tate – Injur'd Love (an adaptation of Webster's The White Devil)

    • Poetry

  • Samuel Cobb – Poems on Several Occasions
  • John Pomfret – Quae Rara, Chara (poem)
  • Nahum Tate – The Triumph of Union

    • Births

  • January 13 – John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, English writer (died 1762)
  • February 14 – Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French novelist (died 1777)
  • February 25 – Carlo Goldoni, Venetian dramatist (died 1793)
  • April 20 – Robert Foulis, Scottish printer and publisher (died 1776)
  • April 22 – Henry Fielding, English novelist (died 1754)
  • June 22 (bapt.) – Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish botanic writer and illustrator (died 1758)
  • August 14 – Johann August Ernesti, German philologist (died 1781)
  • September 7 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher (died 1788)
  • December 18 – Charles Wesley, English hymnist, religious writer and cleric (died 1788)

    • Deaths

  • January 20 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian (born 1659)
  • April 20 – George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (born 1677)
  • June 23 – John Mill, English theologian and exegete (born c. 1645)
  • September 15 – George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (born 1663)
  • September 23 – John Tutchin, English controversialist (born c. 1660–64)
  • September 24 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (born 1642)
  • December 27 – Jean Mabillon, French scholar (born 1632)
  • Unknown date – Alexandre Exquemelin, French or Flemish writer on piracy (born c. 1645)

    • References

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