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The year 1701 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

The beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession, which would continue and have frequent discussion in literature, until 1713.
George Granville's The Jew of Venice, an adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, debuts at Lincoln's Inn Fields with Thomas Betterton as Bassanio. The adaptation is so popular that it displaces the original from the stage for the next four decades.
Matthew Prior, English poet, enters Parliament.

New books

Lady Mary Chudleigh - The Ladies Defiance; or, the Bride-woman's Counsellor Answer'd

Jeremy Collier - The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary (transl.)

Daniel Defoe - The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England

- The True-Born Englishman (satire of John Tutchin)

John Dennis - The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry

John Norris - An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World

John Philips - The Sylvan Dream

Edward Sherburne - The Tragedies of L. Annaeus Seneca (transl.)

Richard Steele - The Christian Hero

Jonathan Swift - A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions Between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome

William Temple - Miscellanea: the Third Part (posth.)

John Toland - The Art of Governing by Partys

Benjamin Whichcote - Several Discourses (posth.)

New drama

Thomas Baker - The Humour of the Age

Colley Cibber - Love Makes a Man

Catherine Trotter Cockburn - Love at a Loss

- The Unhappy Penitent

William Congreve - The Judgment of Paris

Thomas D'Urfey - The Bath

George Farquhar - Sir Harry Wildair

Charles Gildon - Love's Victim

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne - The Jew of Venice

Peter Anthony Motteux - The Masque of Acis and Galatea

Mary Pix - The Double Distress

Nicholas Rowe - The Ambitious Step-Mother

Richard Steele - The Funeral

Poetry

See 1701 in poetry

Births

March 2 - Lewis Morris, Welsh lexicographer and writer (died 1765)

Deaths

June 2 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French salon hostess (born 1607)

August 1 - Jan Chryzostom Pasek, memoirist (born 1636)

September 15 - Edmé Boursault, dramatist (born 1638)Further Information

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