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John Oldmixon – The Grove, or Love's Paradise published ("semi-opera", music by Henry Purcell) William Philips – St. Stephen's Green; Mary Pix – The Beau Defeated; Nicholas Rowe – The Ambitious Stepmother; Thomas Southerne – The Fate of Capua: A tragedy, performed about April [4] John Vanbrugh – The Pilgrim: A comedy, anonymous ...
European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, essays, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.
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1700: The Way of the World by William Congreve; 1702: The Shortest Way with the Dissenters by Daniel Defoe; 1703: Hymn to the Pillory by Daniel Defoe; 1704: The Campaign by Joseph Addison; Miscellany Poems by William Wycherley; 1705: The Mistake by Sir John Vanbrugh; The Gamester by Susanna Centlivre; 1706: The Recruiting Officer (play ...
Pages in category "17th-century books" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Nine Books of Disciplines by Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC-27 BC) Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder (AD 77-79); highly influential through the Middle Ages, the oldest encyclopedia for which there is an extant copy; De verborum significatione by Sextus Pompeius Festus (2nd century AD) Onomasticon by Julius Pollux (2nd century AD)
A new edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (this edition remains the officially authorised book to the present day). 1664. La Thébaïde (play) – Jean Racine; 1665. Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great) (play) – Jean Racine; Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous) Saptapaykar – Alaol (in Bengali) 1666
See also Category:1700s novels for novels published in that year. Subcategories. ... Children's books set in the 1700s (1 P) F. Films set in the 1700s (2 C, 32 P) N.