1672 in literature
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Events from the year 1672 in literature.
Events
[edit]- January 25 – London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is destroyed by fire.[1] The King's Company moves to the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which the rival Duke's Company left the previous year.
- June – Thomas Killigrew mounts another all-female production of his The Parson's Wedding with the King's Company.[2] (The first occurred in 1664.) Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster and Dryden's The Maiden Queen are also staged with all-women casts and new prologues by Dryden for the productions.
- September 13 – John Bunyan is released after twelve years' imprisonment for preaching without a licence.[3]
- December – John Dryden's play Marriage à la Mode is first performed in London by the King's Company.[4]
- The Mercure de France is first published, under the title Mercure galant.[5]
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- Nicolás Antonio – Bibliotheca Hispana Nova[6]
- Nicolas Denys – Description Géographique et Historique des Costes de l’Amérique Septentrionale (Description and Natural History of the Coasts of North America)
- Richard Cumberland – De legibus naturae (On natural laws)
- Melchor Fuster – Conceptos predicables
- Gadla Walatta Petros (Ethiopian hagiography in Ge'ez language)[7]
- Nathaniel Hodges – Loimologia[8]
- James Janeway – A Token for Children, Part 2
- John Milton – Art of Logic
- Pierre Nicole – A Discourse Against Plays and Romances
- César Vichard de Saint-Réal – Dom Carlos
Drama
[edit]- Anonymous – Emilia (adapted from the Costanza di Rosamondo of Aurelio Aureli)
- Anonymous – The Illustrious Slaves
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Eco y Narciso
- El hijo del sol, Faetón
- La niña de Gómez Arias
- Thomas Corneille – Ariane
- John Dryden
- The Assignation
- Marriage à la mode (first performed; published the following year)[9]
- John Lacy (published)
- The Dumb Lady, or The Farrier Made Physician
- The Old Troop, or Monsier Ragou
- Molière – Les Femmes Savantes
- Henry Nevil Payne – The Morning Ramble
- Jean Racine – Bajazet
- Edward Ravenscroft – The Citizen Turned Gentleman
- Thomas Shadwell
- Epsom Wells
- The Miser
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and others – The Rehearsal (published)
Poetry
[edit]- Miguel de Barrios – El coro de las musas
Births
[edit]- January 18 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer, (died 1731)[10]
- March – Sir Richard Steele, Irish dramatist, satirist and politician (died 1729)[11]
- May 1 – Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet and politician (died 1719)[12]
- August 2 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist, historian and travel writer (died 1733)
- October 27 – Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna, Swedish writer (died 1737)[13]
Deaths
[edit]- June 14 – Matthew Wren, English scholar and cleric (born 1629)
- June 20 – Alonso Andrada, Spanish biographer and ascetic writer (born 1590)
- September 12 – Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French classicist (born 1615)[14]
- September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, pioneering American female author (born c. 1612)[15]
- November 21 – Robert Creighton, Scottish classicist, politician and bishop (born 1593)
- December 27 – Jacques Rohault, French philosopher (born 1618)[16]
References
[edit]- ^ The Month and Catholic Review Vol. XXIII. 1881. p. 544.
- ^ Howe, Elizabeth (1992). The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700. Cambridge University Press. pp. 57–8.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ "Chadwyck-Healey Database of English Prose Drama (through 1750)". Retrieved 2011-03-16.
- ^ Darnton, Robert; Roche, Daniel (1989). Revolution in Print: The Press in France 1775–1800. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 148. ISBN 0-520-06431-3.
- ^ An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography... 1814. p. 433.
- ^ Wendy Laura Belcher: "Of Saints and Kings", History Today, November 2016.
- ^ Frank Karslake (1979). Book Auction Records. Wm. Dawson. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-7129-1017-0.
- ^ John Dryden (1 January 1981). Marriage ? la Mode. U of Nebraska Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-8032-6556-5.
- ^ St James Press; Anthony Levi; Retired Professor of French Anthony Levi (1992). Guide to French Literature: Beginnings to 1789. St. James Press. p. 355. ISBN 978-1-55862-159-6.
- ^ George Atherton Aitken (1889). The Life of Richard Steele. W. Isbister, limited. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-4047-7407-0.
- ^ Joseph Addison (1858). Addison's Spectator. Derby & Jackson. p. 306.
- ^ Valborg Lindgärde (8 March 2018). "Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna". Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ J. Bertrand Payne (6 April 2020). Haydn ́s Universal Index of Biography. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 321. ISBN 978-3-8460-4770-5.
- ^ Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1855). Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck. p. 49.
- ^ Copleston, Frederick Charles (2003). A history of philosophy, Volume 4. Continuum International. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-8264-6898-7.