This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1705.
Events
- April/May â Richard Steele, having left the army, marries a wealthy widow, Margaret Stretch.
- July 29 â Richard Challoner enters the English College, Douai.
- October 7 â William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where field sports will inspire much of his poetry.
- October 30 â 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 â John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake is likewise adapted from the French and first performed at The Queen's Theatre.
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- 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 (è¿Âæ¾éÂÂå·¦è¡ÂéÂÂ) almost abandons writing kabuki plays and becomes a staff writer to the bunraku theatre in Osaka.
- 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.
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See also 1705 in poetry
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