1700 in literature

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The year 1700 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

Mary Astell - Some Reflections upon Marriage
Aphra Behn - Histories, Novels, and Translations (posth.)
Richard Blackmore - A Satyr Against Wit
Thomas Brown - Amusements Serious and Comic
- - A Description of Mr. Dryden's Funeral
Samuel Cobb - Poetae Britannici
Jeremy Collier - A Second Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage &c. (See 1698 in literature)
Gatien de Courtilz - Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan
Daniel Defoe - The Pacificator
William King - The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies (satire of Philosophical Transactions)
Francis Moore - Vox Stellarum: An almanac for 1701 (first in a series of yearly "almanacs" of astrology)
Peter Anthony Motteux - The History of the Renown'd Don-Quixote de la Mancha
John Pomfret - Reason
Sir William Temple - Letters Written by Sir W. Temple, and Other Ministers of State, Both at Home and Abroad (putatively edited by Jonathan Swift)
John Tutchin - The Foreigners (a satire on William III's Dutch ministers)
Ned Ward
- The Reformer
- A Step to the Bath: With a character of the place
The Clothier's Delight or the Rich Men's Joy and the Poor Men's Sorrow" (approximate date).

Anonymous - Caledonia, or the Pedlar Turned Merchant
Abel Boyer - Achilles
William Burnaby - The Reformed Wife
Susannah Centlivre - The Perjured Husband
Colley Cibber - The Tragical History of King Richard III
William Congreve - The Way of the World
John Dennis - Iphigenia
George Farquhar - The Constant Couple
Charles Gildon - Measure for Measure
Charles Hopkins - Friendship Improved, or the Female Warrior
Francis Manning - The Generous Choice
John Oldmixon - The Grove, or Love's Paradise published (a "semi-opera" with 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
John Vanbrugh - The Pilgrim

January 7 – Raffaello Fabretti, historian (born 1618)
February 11 – Henry Killigrew (born 1613), clergyman, poet and playwright
May 12:
- Joseph Athias, publisher of the Hebrew Bible (born 1635)
- John Dryden (born 1631)
August 8 – Joseph Moxon, lexicographer (born 1627)
date unknown – Thomas Creech, translator (born 1659)