This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1705.
Events April/May – Richard Steele, having left the army, marries a wealthy widow, Margaret Stretch. July 29 – Richard Challoner enters the English College, Douai. October 7 – William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where field sports will inspire much of his poetry. October 30 – John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy, adapted from the French, is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket. December 27 – John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake is likewise adapted from the French and first performed at The Queen's Theatre. unknown dates George Hickes' Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus vol. 2 (published in Oxford) includes the first published reference to Beowulf and the single surviving transcript of the Finnesburg Fragment. Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門) almost abandons writing kabuki plays and becomes a staff writer to the bunraku theatre in Osaka.Encyclopædia Britannica. Claude Pierre Goujet, religious historian and Jansenist, enters holy orders. William Walsh begins a correspondence with Alexander Pope. Work begins on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, designed by the playwright John Vanbrugh for the Duke of Marlborough.
New books Prose Joseph Addison – Remarks on Several Parts of Italy Mary Astell – The Christian Religion as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church Dimitrie Cantemir – Historia Hieroglyphica (the first novel to use the Romanian language) George Cheyne – Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion (deist) Samuel Clarke – A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God Mary Davys – The Fugitive Daniel Defoe The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born Englishman John Dunton – The Life and Errors of John Dunton Late Citizen of London (humor) Edmund Gibson – Family-Devotion Charles Gildon – The Deist's Manual Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier – La Tour ténébreuse, et les jours lumineux: contes anglois Bernard de Mandeville – The Grumbling Hive (pirated edition) Delarivière Manley – The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians (roman à clef) John Philips Blenheim The Splendid Shilling Katherine Philips – Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus John Toland – Primitive Constitution of the Christian Church
Drama Thomas Baker – Hampstead Heath Susannah Centlivre The Gamester (anonymously) The Basset-Table Colley Cibber – The Careless Husband Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Idoménée John Dennis – Gibraltar, or the Spanish Adventure George Granville – The British Enchanters William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston – The Lawyer’s Fortune or Love in a Hollow Tree Peter Anthony Motteux The Amorous Miser, or the Younger the Wiser Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (opera) William Mountfort – Zelmane Mary Pix (attributed) – The Conquest of Spain (adapted from William Rowley's All's Lost by Lust) Nicholas Rowe – Ulysses Richard Steele – The Tender Husband John Vanbrugh – The Confederacy The Mistake
Poetry Richard Blackmore – Eliza Daniel Defoe The Double Welcome The Dyet of Poland Complete Tang Poems Charles Johnson – The Queen; a Pindaric Ode Matthew Prior – An English Padlock Ned Ward – Hudibras Redidivus Isaac Watts – Horae Lyricae See also 1705 in poetry
Births January 21 – Isaac Hawkins Browne, English poet (died 1760) February 13 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwillowa, Polish dramatistCelia Hawkesworth, A History of Central European Women's Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, (died 1753) May – Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (died 1758) June 21 – David Hartley, English philosopher (died 1757) September 2 – Abraham Tucker (Edward Search), English philosopher (died 1774) October 29 – Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, German historian (died 1783) November 23 – Thomas Birch, English historian (died 1766) probable – Stephen Duck, English poet (died 1756)
Deaths January 4 – Madame d'Aulnoy, French author of fairy tales (born c. 1650) January 10 – Étienne Pavillon, French lawyer and poet (born 1632) February 5 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (born 1635) April 2 – John Howe, English theologian (born 1630) May 5 – Johann Ernst Glück, German writer and translator (born 1654) June 10 – Michael Wigglesworth, English poet (born 1631) October 17 – Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and salonnière (born 1620) November 10 – Justine Siegemund, German writer on midwifery (born 1636)Lynne Tatlock (translator): The Court Midwife: Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 2005:
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