1700 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1700.

Events

February 1 – Richard Bentley becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Early March - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is first performed at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
May 5 – Within days of John Dryden's death on May 1, his last written work, The Secular Masque, is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.

Aphra Behn (died 1689) – Histories, Novels, and Translations (fiction and nonfiction)<ref name=cocel/>
Tom Brown – Amusements Serious and Comical<ref name=cocel/>
Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras – Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan
Peter Anthony Motteux, editor – The History of the Renown'd Don-Quixote de la Mancha, translated by several hands, Volume 1 (Volumes 2–4 published in 1712 in the third edition)<ref name=cocel/>

Anonymous – Caledonia, or the Pedlar Turned Merchant
Abel Boyer – Achilles; or, Iphigenia in Aulis: a tragedy<ref name=cocel/>
William Burnaby – The Reformed Wife
Susannah Centlivre – The Perjur'd Husband; or, The Adventures of Venice: A tragedy<ref name=cocel/>
Colley Cibber – The Tragical History of King Richard III<ref name=cocel/>
William Congreve – The Way of the World, a comedy performed in March<ref name=cocel/>
John Dennis – Iphigenia: A tragedy, performed in December 1699<ref name=cocel/>
George Farquhar – The Constant Couple
Charles Gildon – Measure for Measure
Charles Hopkins – Friendship Improv'd; or, The Female Warriour: A tragedy, performed November 7, 1699<ref name=cocel/>
Francis Manning – The Generous Choice
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<ref name=cocel/>
John Vanbrugh – The Pilgrim: A comedy, anonymous; performed in April<ref name=cocel/>

Richard Blackmore – A Satyr Against Wit<ref name=cocel/>
Thomas Brown – A Description of Mr. Dryden's Funeral, verse<ref name=cocel/>
Samuel Cobb – Poetae Britannici<ref name=cocel/>
Daniel Defoe – The Pacificator<ref name=cocel/>
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – Fama y obras póstumas del Fénix de México<ref name="Cruz">Template:Cite web</ref>
William King – The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies (satire of Philosophical Transactions)<ref name=cocel/>
John Pomfret – Reason<ref name=cocel/>
John Tutchin – The Foreigners, published anonymously (verse satire on William III's Dutch ministers; Daniel Defoe replied in The True-Born Englishman in 1701))<ref name=cocel/>
Ned Ward – The Reformer<ref name=cocel/>

Mary Astell – Some Reflections upon Marriage<ref name=cocel>Template:Cite book</ref>
James Brome – Travels over England, Scotland, and Wales
Jeremy Collier – A Second Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage &c (See 1698 in literature)<ref name=cocel/>
Eugenia (authorship unknown) – The Female Advocate: Or, a plea for the just liberty of the tender sex, and particularly of married women...
Francis Moore – Vox Stellarum: An almanac for 1701<ref name=cocel/> (first in a series of yearly "almanacs" of astrology)
Sir William Temple – Letters Written by Sir W. Temple, and Other Ministers of State, Both at Home and Abroad (putatively edited by Jonathan Swift)<ref name=cocel/>
Pavao Ritter Vitezović – Croatia Rediviva
Ned Ward – A Step to the Bath: With a character of the place, published anonymously<ref name=cocel />
Anonymous; perhaps Daniel Defoe – Castration of Popish Ecclesiastics

January 7 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (born 1618)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 14 – Henry Killigrew, English clergyman, poet and playwright (born 1613)
May 12
- Joseph Athias, Spanish-born publisher of Hebrew Bible (born 1635)
- John Dryden, English poet (born 1631)
July – Thomas Creech, English translator (born 1659; suicide)
August 6 – Johann Beer, Austrian author, court official and composer (born 1655; hunting accident)
August 8 – Joseph Moxon, English mathematician and lexicographer (born 1627)
August 22 – Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican priest, poet, geographer, and historian (born 1645)<ref name="SoléAbreu1989">Template:Cite book</ref>
Unknown date – Charles Hopkins, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (born 1664)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>