1706 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1706.

Events

• April 8 – George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer is performed for the first time, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London.^[1]
• April/May – Philosopher Samuel Clarke attacks the views of Henry Dodwell on the immortality of the soul.^[2]
• September 13 – Daniel Defoe leaves England for Edinburgh, Scotland, where he acts as a government agent to promote ratification of the Treaty of Union.^[3]
• unknown date – The first translation of the New Testament into the Upper Sorbian language, made by pastor Michał Frencel who dies this year, is published by his son Abraham in Zittau.^[4]

New books

Prose

• Anonymous – The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (serial, the first English translation of One Thousand and One Nights, taken from the first French translation)
• Samuel Clarke – A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion
• Stephen Clay – An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King
• Daniel Defoe
  • An Essay at Removing National Prejudices Against a Union with Scotland
  • A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal (attrib)
• John Dennis – Essay on the Operas after the Italian Manner
• White Kennett – The History of England from the Commencement of the Reign of Charles I to the End of William III
• John Locke – Posthumous Works of Mr John Locke
• Simon Ockley – Introductio ad linguas orientates
• Jonathan Swift – Baucis and Philemon
• Matthew Tindal – The Rights of the Christian Church Asserted
• Ned Ward – The London Spy

Drama

• Thomas Betterton – The Amorous Widow
• Susanna Centlivre –
  • Love at a Venture
  • The Platonick Lady
• Colley Cibber – Perolla and Izadora
• Catherine Trotter Cockburn – The Revolution of Sweden
• Antoine Danchet – Cyrus
• Thomas D'Urfey – Wonders in the Sun (opera)
• George Farquhar – The Recruiting Officer
• George Granville – The British Enchanters, or No Magic Like Love
• Delarivière Manley – Almyna, or The Arabian Vow
• Mary Pix (attr.) – Adventures in Madrid
• Jean-François Regnard – Le Légataire universel (The Residuary Legatee)
• John Vanbrugh – The Mistake
• José de Cañizares – El pastelero de Madrigal

Poetry

See main article: article and 1706 in poetry.

• Richard Blackmore – An Advice to the Poets: a poem occasioned by the wonderful success of Her Majesty's arms, under the conduct of the Duke of Marlborough in Flanders
• William Congreve – A Pindarique Ode.... The Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough
• Daniel Defoe
  • Caledonia
  • A Hymn to Peace
  • Jure Divino (on divine right)
  • The Vision (on national union)
• John Dennis – The Battle of Ramillia
• Mihai Iștvanovici – Stihuri politice (Political Verse)
• John Philips – Cerealia: An imitation of Milton
• Matthew Prior – The Squirrel
• Thomas Tickell – Oxford
• Isaac Watts – Horae Lyricae^[5]

Births

• January 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American polymath and politician (died 1790)
• February 10 – Benjamin Hoadly, English physician and dramatist (died 1757)
• November 8 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher and jurist (died 1772)
• December 17 – Émilie du Châtelet, French writer and translator (died 1749)

Deaths

• January 21 – Adrien Baillet, French critic (born 1649)
• February 27 – John Evelyn, English diarist (born 1620)
• August 6 – Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, French natural philosopher (born 1624)
• December 8 – Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye, French historian (born 1634)
• December 28 – Pierre Bayle, French encyclopedist and philosopher (born 1647)^[6]
• unknown dates
  • John Phillips, English satirist (born 1631)^[7]
  • Rahman Baba, Indian Pashto poet (born 1632)
  • Guillaume Vandive, French printer and bookseller (born 1680)

Notes and References

1. Book: Williams, Hywel . Cassell's Chronology of World History . registration . London . Weidenfeld & Nicolson . 2005 . 0-304-35730-8.
2. Book: Wigelsworth, Jeffrey. Deism in Enlightenment England: Theology, politics, and Newtonian public science. 19 July 2013. Manchester University Press. 978-1-84779-730-8. 190. 27 April 2022. 11 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200811085329/https://books.google.com/books?id=H2W5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT190. live.
3. Book: Novak, Maximillian E.. Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions: His Life and Ideas. 2003. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-926154-3. 289. 2022-04-27. 2020-08-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20200811100102/https://books.google.com/books?id=dz6bO8hEDzcC&pg=PA289. live.
4. Book: Greville. Corbett. Bernard. Comrie. The Slavonic Languages. September 2003. Routledge. 978-1-136-86137-6. 596. 2022-04-27. 2020-07-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20200724133820/https://books.google.com/books?id=euI4CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA596. live.
5. Web site: Isabel . Rivers . Watts, Isaac (1674–1748) . . Oxford University Press . 2004 . 2011-12-09 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/28888 . 2022-04-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220427023019/https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28888;jsessionid=60BE598B6FAF874046435BA23C17E254 . live .
6. Book: Wiep. van Bunge. Hans. Bots. Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), Le Philosophe de Rotterdam: Philosophy, Religion and Reception: Selected Papers of the Tercentenary Conference Held at Rotterdam, 7–8 December 2006. 4 June 2008. Brill. 90-04-16536-3. 7. 27 April 2022. 24 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200724133817/https://books.google.com/books?id=8TYQHGuGHfMC&pg=PR7. live.
7. Phillips, John (1631-1706). Sidney. Lee. 45.