1700 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1700. 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) Tom Brown – Amusements Serious and Comical 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)