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1672 in literature
Events from the year
1672 in literature
.
Events
January 25
â London's
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
, is destroyed by fire. The
King's Company
moves to the theatre at
Lincoln's Inn Fields
, which the rival
Duke's Company
left the previous year.
June âÂÂ
Thomas Killigrew
mounts another all-female production of his
The Parson's Wedding
with the King's Company. (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
âÂÂ
John Bunyan
is released after twelve years' imprisonment for preaching without a licence.
December âÂÂ
John Dryden
's play
Marriage ÃÂ la Mode
is first performed in London by the King's Company.
The
Mercure de France
is first published, under the title
Mercure galant
.
New books
Prose
Nicolás Antonio
âÂÂ
Bibliotheca Hispana Nova
Nicolas Denys
âÂÂ
Description Géographique et Historique des Costes de lâÂÂAmérique Septentrionale (Description and Natural History of the Coasts of North America)
Richard Cumberland
âÂÂ
De legibus naturae (On natural laws)
Melchor Fuster âÂÂ
Conceptos predicables
Gadla
Walatta Petros
(
Ethiopia
n hagiography in
Ge'ez language
)
Nathaniel Hodges
âÂÂ
Loimologia
James Janeway
âÂÂ
A Token for Children
, Part 2
John Milton
âÂÂ
Art of Logic
Pierre Nicole
âÂÂ
A Discourse Against Plays and Romances
César Vichard de Saint-Réal
âÂÂ
Dom Carlos
Drama
Anonymous âÂÂ
Emilia
(adapted from the
Costanza di Rosamondo
of
Aurelio Aureli
)
Anonymous âÂÂ
The Illustrious Slaves
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Eco y Narciso
El hijo del sol, Faetón
La niña de Gómez Arias
Thomas Corneille
âÂÂ
Ariane
John Dryden
The Assignation
Marriage ÃÂ la mode
(first performed; published the following year)
John Lacy
(published)
The Dumb Lady, or The Farrier Made Physician
The Old Troop, or Monsier Ragou
Molière
âÂÂ
Les Femmes Savantes
Henry Nevil Payne
âÂÂ
The Morning Ramble
Jean Racine
âÂÂ
Bajazet
Edward Ravenscroft
âÂÂ
The Citizen Turned Gentleman
Thomas Shadwell
Epsom Wells
The Miser
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
, and others âÂÂ
The Rehearsal
(published)
Poetry
Miguel de Barrios
âÂÂ
El coro de las musas
Births
January 18
âÂÂ
Antoine Houdar de la Motte
, French writer, (died
1731
)
March â Sir
Richard Steele
, Irish dramatist, satirist and politician (died
1729
)
May 1
âÂÂ
Joseph Addison
, English essayist, poet and politician (died
1719
)
August 2
âÂÂ
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
, Swiss paleontologist, historian and travel writer (died
1733
)
October 27
âÂÂ
Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna
, Swedish writer (died
1737
)
Deaths
June 14
âÂÂ
Matthew Wren
, English scholar and cleric (born
1629
)
June 20
âÂÂ
Alonso Andrada
, Spanish biographer and ascetic writer (born
1590
)
September 12
âÂÂ
Tanneguy Le Fèvre
, French classicist (born
1615
)
September 16
âÂÂ
Anne Bradstreet
, pioneering American female author (born c. 1612)
November 21
âÂÂ
Robert Creighton
, Scottish classicist, politician and bishop (born
1593
)
December 27
âÂÂ
Jacques Rohault
, French philosopher (born
1618
)
References