1676 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1676.

Events

• March 2 – George Etherege's play The Man of Mode is given its first performance, in London.
• May 22 – Samuel Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House.
• December 11 – The first performance of William Wycherley's play The Plain Dealer is given in London.
• December – The German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz arrives in Hanover to take up a post as "councillor" and librarian to Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg.

New books

Prose

• Robert Barclay – Theses Theologiae
• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
• Charles Cotton – Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler)
• Ann, Lady Fanshawe – Memoir (of her deceased courtier husband, Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet)
• Domingo Fernández Navarrete – Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China (An Account of the Empire of China, Historical, Political, Moral, and Religious)
• Gabriel de Foigny – La Terre Australe connue (The Southern Land, Known)
• Thomas Tomkinson – Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism.
• Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler, 5th edition

Drama

• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (?) – Zoroastres
• John Crowne –The Country Wit
• Thomas Duffet – Beauty's Triumph (masque)
• Thomas d'Urfey
• The Fool Turned Critic
• Madam Fickle
• George Etherege – The Man of Mode
• Nathaniel Lee – Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar
• Thomas Otway – Don Carlos, Prince of Spain
• Edward Ravenscroft – The Wrangling Lovers
• Thomas Rawlins – Tom Essence
• Elkanah Settle
• Pastor Fido
• The Conquest of China by the Tartars
• Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa (adapted from a story by Madeleine de Scudéry)
• Thomas Shadwell
• The Libertine
• The Virtuoso
• William Wycherley – The Plain Dealer
• Agustín Moreto
• El lindo don Diego
• No puede ser...
• El parecido en la corte
• Verdadera III parte de comedias

Births

• June 21 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (died 1729)
• July 4 – José de Cañizares, Spanish dramatist (died 1750)
• October 8 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar and monk (died 1764)
• Unknown dates
• Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (died 1752)
• Samuel Bownas, English Quaker religious writer (died 1753)
• William Gwavas, English lawyer and writer in the Cornish language (died 1741)

Deaths

• March 22 – Lady Anne Clifford, English patron and correspondent (born 1590)
• July 25 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer and cleric (born 1604)
• August 17 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (born 1621)
• September 2 – Edward Worsley, English religious writer (born 1605)
• October 25 – Justus Georg Schottel, German grammarian (born 1612)
• November 1 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (born 1589)
• December 18 – Edward Benlowes, English poet (born 1603)
• December 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English polymath (born 1592)

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