1698 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• The latest edition of the Bay Psalm Book is the first to include music.

[edit] New books

• Tooke’s Pantheon of the Heathen Gods and Illustrious Heroes

[edit] New drama

• Catherine Trotter Cockburn - The Fatal Friendship
• Thomas D'Urfey - The Campaigners
• George Farquhar - Love and a Bottle
• Mary Pix - Queen Catharine, or, The Ruines of Love

[edit] Non-fiction

• Jeremy Collier - Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (pamphlet)

[edit] Births

• January 13 - Metastasio, Italian poet (died 1782)
• May 8 - Henry Baker, poet and son-in-law of Daniel Defoe (died 1774)
• July 19 - Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss author (died 1783)
• December 24 - William Warburton, English critic (died 1779)

[edit] Deaths

• July 18 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, theologian (born 1663)
• date unknown
  • Jacques Pradon, dramatist
  • Jacques Quétif, bibliographer