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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1705.
Events
- April/May – Richard Steele, having left the army, marries a wealthy widow, Margaret Stretch.[1]
 - July 29 – Richard Challoner enters the English College, Douai.
 - October 7 – William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where field sports will inspire much of his poetry.[2]
 - October 30 – John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy, adapted from the French, is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket.[3][4]
 - December 27 – John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake is likewise adapted from the French and first performed at The Queen's Theatre.[3][4]
 - unknown dates
- George Hickes' Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus vol. 2 (published in Oxford) includes the first published reference to Beowulf and the single surviving transcript of the Finnesburg Fragment.
 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門) almost abandons writing kabuki plays and becomes a staff writer to the bunraku theatre in Osaka.[5]
 - Claude Pierre Goujet, religious historian and Jansenist, enters holy orders.
 - William Walsh begins a correspondence with Alexander Pope.
 - Work begins on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, designed by the playwright John Vanbrugh for the Duke of Marlborough.[6]
 
 
New books
Prose
- Joseph Addison – Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
 - Mary Astell – The Christian Religion as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church
 - Dimitrie Cantemir – Historia Hieroglyphica (the first novel to use the Romanian language)
 - George Cheyne – Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion (deist)
 - Samuel Clarke – A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God
 - Mary Davys – The Fugitive
 - Daniel Defoe
- The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon
 - A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born Englishman
 
 - John Dunton – The Life and Errors of John Dunton Late Citizen of London (humor)
 - Edmund Gibson – Family-Devotion
 - Charles Gildon – The Deist's Manual
 - Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier – La Tour ténébreuse, et les jours lumineux: contes anglois
 - Bernard de Mandeville – The Grumbling Hive (pirated edition)
 - Delarivière Manley – The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians (roman à clef)
 - John Philips
- Blenheim
 - The Splendid Shilling
 
 - Katherine Philips – Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus
 - John Toland – Primitive Constitution of the Christian Church
 
Drama
- Thomas Baker – Hampstead Heath
 - Susannah Centlivre
- The Gamester (anonymously)
 - The Basset-Table
 
 - Colley Cibber – The Careless Husband
 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Idoménée
 - John Dennis – Gibraltar, or the Spanish Adventure
 - George Granville – The British Enchanters
 - William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston – The Lawyer’s Fortune or Love in a Hollow Tree
 - Peter Anthony Motteux
- The Amorous Miser, or the Younger the Wiser
 - Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (opera)
 
 - William Mountfort – Zelmane
 - Mary Pix (attributed) – The Conquest of Spain (adapted from William Rowley's All's Lost by Lust)
 - Nicholas Rowe – Ulysses
 - Richard Steele – The Tender Husband
 - John Vanbrugh – 
- The Confederacy
 - The Mistake
 
 
Poetry
- Richard Blackmore – Eliza
 - Daniel Defoe 
- The Double Welcome
 - The Dyet of Poland
 
 - Complete Tang Poems
 - Charles Johnson – The Queen; a Pindaric Ode
 - Matthew Prior – An English Padlock
 - Ned Ward – Hudibras Redidivus
 - Isaac Watts – Horae Lyricae
 
See also 1705 in poetry
Births
- January 21 – Isaac Hawkins Browne, English poet (died 1760)
 - February 13 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwillowa, Polish dramatist[7] (died 1753)
 - May – Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (died 1758)
 - June 21 – David Hartley, English philosopher (died 1757)
 - September 2 – Abraham Tucker (Edward Search), English philosopher (died 1774)
 - October 29 – Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, German historian (died 1783)
 - November 23 – Thomas Birch, English historian (died 1766)
 - probable – Stephen Duck, English poet (died 1756)
 
Deaths
- January 4 – Madame d'Aulnoy, French author of fairy tales (born c. 1650)[8]
 - January 10 – Étienne Pavillon, French lawyer and poet (born 1632)
 - February 5 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (born 1635)
 - April 2 – John Howe, English theologian (born 1630)
 - May 5 – Johann Ernst Glück, German writer and translator (born 1654)
 - June 10 – Michael Wigglesworth, English poet (born 1631)
 - October 17 – Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and salonnière (born 1620)
 - November 10 – Justine Siegemund, German writer on midwifery (born 1636)[9]
 
References
- ↑ Charles A Knight (30 September 2015). A Political Biography of Richard Steele. Routledge. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-317-31489-9.
 - ↑ Warwick county (1847). Notices of the churches of Warwickshire... p. 126.
 - 1 2 "Who was John Vanbrugh?". Britain Unlimited. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
 - 1 2 McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama (2nd ed.).
 - ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica.
 - ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
 - ↑ Celia Hawkesworth, A History of Central European Women's Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, ISBN 0-333-77809-X
 - ↑ Anne Commire (8 October 1999). Women in World History. Gale. p. 626. ISBN 978-0-7876-4061-3.
 - ↑ Lynne Tatlock (translator): The Court Midwife: Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 2005: ISBN 0-226-75709-9
 
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