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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.
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 ...
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
The first book on record printed on an American printing-press needing the services of a bookbinder was The Whole Book of Psalms, published at Cambridge in 1640. [239] John Ratcliff of the seventeenth century is the first identifiable bookbinder in colonial America, credited for binding Eliot's Indian Bible in 1663. [240]
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.
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