1660 in literature

none 1660 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1660. Events January 11 – Samuel Pepys starts his diary, still using the Old Style date of 1 January.Samuel Pepys The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 7: 1666 https://books.google.com/books?id=H7B-A-WVKF0C&pg=PP13 15 December 2000 University of California Press 978-0-520-22698-2 13 February/March – John Rhodes reopens the old Cockpit Theatre in London, forms a company of young actors and begins to stage plays.Robert Chambers The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquties, in Connection with the Calendar https://books.google.com/books?id=By35DOMkRZgC&pg=PA720 1864 W.&R. Chambers 720 His production of Pericles will be the first Shakespearean performance of the Restoration era; Thomas Betterton makes his stage debut in the title rôle.Don-John Dugas Marketing the Bard: Shakespeare in Performance and Print, 1660-1740 https://books.google.com/books?id=3-Z_AuS2xksC&pg=PA103 2006 University of Missouri Press 978-0-8262-6544-9 103 May – The English Restoration brings a host of Royalist exiles back to England, Richard Baxter among them, and many panegyrics are produced to commemorate the event. June – A warrant is issued for the arrest of the anti-monarchist John Milton, who is forced into hiding, whilst his writings are burned.Richard Bradford John Milton https://books.google.com/books?id=NRlVhCjkwF4C&pg=PA47 13 May 2013 Routledge 1-134-63270-3 47 August 21 – The newly restored King Charles II of England issues a royal grant for two theatre companies: a King's Company under his own patronage, led by Thomas Killigrew, and a Duke's Company under the patronage of his brother, the Duke of York and future King James II, led by Sir William Davenant. On November 8, the King's Company moves from the old Red Bull Theatre to the new Vere St. Theatre, and in the same month the Duke's Company begins performing at the Salisbury Court Theatre. September 5 – Roger Boyle receives the title of Earl of Orrery. October 14 – Blaise Pascal's Lettres Provinciales is burned as a heretical work on the orders of King Louis XIV of France.Joseph Gardner Weber The Persuasive Art of Pascal's Lettres Provinciales: a Study of Satire, Irony, and Argumentation https://books.google.com/books?id=gRJDAAAAIAAJ 1963 University of Illinois October – John Milton is arrested and imprisoned. December – John Milton is released from prison, two weeks after his brother Christopher is appointed a judge. December 8 – The first English actress to appear on the professional stage in England in a non-singing rôle, as Desdemona in Othello, is variously considered to be Margaret Hughes, Anne Marshall or Katherine Corey.The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 1-85986-000-1Elizabeth Howe The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700 https://archive.org/details/firstenglishactr0000howe registration Cambridge University Press 1992 24Rosamond Gilder Enter the Actress: The First Women in the Theatre Boston Houghton Mifflin 1931 166 unknown dates The Royalist poet Robert Herrick returns to his parish in Devon after the English Restoration.Tom Cain Herrick, Robert (baptized 1591, d. 1674) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 Online http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13092 2014-03-25 10.1093/ref:odnb/13092 The Klencke Atlas is commissioned by Dutch merchants as a gift to King Charles II of England; at 1.75 m ftin off tall it is one of the world's largest books. Danish writer Birgitte Thott is given permission by King Frederick III of Denmark to receive an annual grant from the Soro Academy to pursue her studies, expand her library, and research into language.http://denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/Kunst_og_kultur/Litteratur/Forfatter/Birgitte_Thott Birgitte Thott Gyldendal – Den Store Danske denstoredanske.dk 2016-05-13 New books Prose Sarah Blackborow – The Just and Equall Ballance Discovered Francisco Manuel de Melo – Epanáphoras de varia historia portuguesa John Dryden – Astraea Redux Richard Flecknoe – Heroick Portraits George Mackenzie – Aretina (the first Scottish novel)Aretina The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature Trevor Royle https://books.google.com/books?id=r8C1I7yD8wUC&pg=PT31 John Milton – The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth Thomas Plowden, S.J. (translated) – The Learned Man Defended and Reform'd (Daniello Bartoli's L'huomo di lettere) Madeleine de Scudéry – ClélieAlexander Chalmers The General Biographical Dictionary https://archive.org/details/generalbiograph32chalgoog 1816 J. Nichols 293 Jeremy Taylor – Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience Thieleman J. van Braght – De Martelaersspiegel Drama Anonymous (misattributed to James Shirley) – Andromana (published) Cromwell's Conspiracy (misattributed to Beaumont and Fletcher) – The Faithful Friends (registered) Thomas Ford – Love's Labyrinth, or the Royal Shepherdess (published) William Lower – The Amorous Fantasm (adapted from Philippe Quinault's Le Fantôme Amoreux) John Tatham London's Glory (staged at the Guildhall) The Rump (published) Pedro Calderón de la Barca – Celos aun del aire matan Molière – Sganarelle, ou Le Cocu imaginaire Poetry Rachel Jevon – Exultationis CarmenHelen Ostovich Elizabeth Sauer Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700 https://books.google.com/books?id=1T6TAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA339 2 August 2004 Routledge 978-1-135-88769-8 339 Robert Wild – Iter Boreale. Attempting Something upon the Successful and Matchless March of the Lord General George Monk from Scotland to LondonNotes to the Diary of Samuel Pepys Retrieved 24 August 2016. Births January – Hippolyte Hélyot, French church historian (died 1716) February 12 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (died 1749) March 28 – Arnold Houbraken, Dutch writer and painter (died 1719) May or earlier – Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter (died 1685) Unknown date – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh naturalist and antiquary (died 1709)s-LHUY-EDW-1660 Lhuyd, Edward (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary and philologist Thomas Jones 1 March 2019 probable Daniel Defoe, English novelist and travel writer (died 1731) Liu Zhi (劉智), Chinese Muslim scholar (died c. 1739) Deaths April 30 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch scholar and writer (born 1576) August 31 – Johann Freinsheim, German critic (born 1608)Joseph Timothy Haydn Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time https://books.google.com/books?id=j_RJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA189 1870 Moxon 189 October 6 – Paul Scarron, French dramatist and novelist (born c. 1610) Scarron, Paul 24 308–309; see page 309, end of second para ...and he died on the 6th of October 1660 December 31 – Thomas Powell, Welsh writer and cleric (born c. 1608)s-POWE-THO-1608 Powell, Thomas (1608-1660), cleric Garfield Hopkin Hughes 13 July 2020 Unknown date – Sir Thomas Urquhart, Scottish writer and translator (born 1611) References 30em