1701 in literature

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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.

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.)