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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1700.
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See also: 1699 in literature, 1701 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- February 1 – Richard Bentley becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
- Early March - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is first performed at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.
- 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.
New books
Fiction
- Aphra Behn (died 1689) – Histories, Novels, and Translations (fiction and nonfiction)
- William King – The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies (satire of Philosophical Transactions)
- 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)
- 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)
- Unknown date – Charles Hopkins, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (born 1664)