1662 in literature

none 1662 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1662. Events February 15 – The first performance of Sir William Davenant's The Law Against Lovers – the first Restoration adaptation of Shakespeare, consisting of an amalgam of Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing – is given by the Duke's Company at its new theater in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.Shakespeare William Much Ado about Nothing 2003 Cambridge University Press 9781139835244 26 https://books.google.com/books?id=A-CS5ZqATr4C&pg=PP26 en 2020-09-21 2022-04-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20220427022830/https://books.google.com/books?id=A-CS5ZqATr4C&pg=PP26 live September 29 – Samuel Pepys in his diary calls the King's Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in London "the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life."Monday 29 September 1662 https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1662/09/29/ 2022-04-27 The Diary of Samuel Pepys en-gb 2021-09-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20210929212758/http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1662/09/29/ live October 18 – John Ogilby, Master of the Revels in Ireland, opens the first Theatre Royal, Dublin, in Smock Alley.Dr Paul Salzman Ms Jo Wallwork Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas https://books.google.com/books?id=DQHvICfBjEIC&pg=PA109 28 May 2013 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 978-1-4094-7844-7 109 9 July 2020 19 July 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200719043933/https://books.google.com/books?id=DQHvICfBjEIC&pg=PA109 live December 26 – The première of Molière's comedy The School for Wives (L'École des femmes) is held at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris.School For Wives – Swan Theatre Company http://www.swantheatrecompany.co.uk/school_for_wives/ www.swantheatrecompany.co.uk 4 June 2018 28 June 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180628104339/http://www.swantheatrecompany.co.uk/school_for_wives/ live unknown dates Two autos sacramentales by Pedro Calderón de la Barca – Las órdenes militares and Mística y real Babilonia – are the subject of an inquiry by the Spanish Inquisition. The former is censured and its manuscript copies confiscated, and remains condemned until 1671.Fiore Robert L. Drama and Ethos: Natural-Law Ethics in Spanish Golden Age Theater 2015 University Press of Kentucky 9780813162942 109 https://books.google.com/books?id=2dseBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 en 2020-09-21 2021-10-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20211010234336/https://books.google.com/books?id=2dseBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 live The Parliament of England passes the first Printing Act of the Restoration era, the Licensing of the Press Act, which restricts London printing to a total of 24 printing houses, each with no more than three presses and three apprentices. Books printed abroad are banned.Charles II, 1662: An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses http://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol5/pp428-435 www.british-history.ac.uk 4 June 2018 en 9 March 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180309011806/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol5/pp428-435 live Roger L'Estrange is granted a warrant to seize seditious books or pamphlets.Sir Roger L'Estrange – English journalist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roger-LEstrange Encyclopedia Britannica 4 June 2018 en 21 December 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181221042822/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roger-LEstrange live New books Prose Church of England – 1662 Book of Common Prayer1662 Book of Common Prayer http://www.cambridge.org/bibles/prayer-books/book-common-prayer Cambridge University Press 4 June 2018 en 1 June 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180601035559/http://www.cambridge.org/bibles/prayer-books/book-common-prayer live Sarah Blackborow – The Oppressed Prisoners' ComplaintPrior Mary Women in English Society, 1500–1800 2005 Routledge 9781134897292 1670 https://books.google.com/books?id=sdPjelkA40kC&pg=PA1670 en 2020-09-21 2022-04-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20220427022840/https://books.google.com/books?id=sdPjelkA40kC&pg=PA1670 live Margaret Cavendish – Orations of Diverse PersonsOlsen Kirstin Chronology of Women's History 1994 Greenwood Publishing Group 9780313288036 77 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313288036 registration en Cyrano de Bergerac (posthumous) – États et Empires du Soleil (The States and Empires of the Sun)Les États et empires du soleil – Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) https://data.bnf.fr/14589293/savinien_de_cyrano_de_bergerac_les_etats_et_empires_du_soleil/ Resources from the BnF 4 June 2018 en 1662 21 December 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181221090828/https://data.bnf.fr/14589293/savinien_de_cyrano_de_bergerac_les_etats_et_empires_du_soleil/ live Franciscus van den Enden – Kort Verhael van Nieuw-Nederland (Brief Account of New Netherland)Bloemendal Jan Eversmann Peter Strietman Elsa Drama, Performance and Debate: Theatre and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Period 2012 BRILL 9789004236998 315 https://books.google.com/books?id=pSczAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA315 en 2020-09-21 2021-10-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20211008123238/https://books.google.com/books?id=pSczAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA315 live John Evelyn – Sculptura: or The history, and art of chalcography and engraving in copper... https://web.archive.org/web/20220427022917/http://pdsloginblue.bl.uk/pds?func=sso&calling_system=primo&institute=BL&url=http://explore.bl.uk:80/primo_library/libweb/action/login.do?afterPDS=true&vid=BLVU1&dscnt=3&targetURL=http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=BLVU1&dscnt=0&afterTimeout=4F33EE15944AFD8431009E547C1CEFBA&dstmp=1651026555991 2022-04-27 British Library. Retrieved 4 November 2018. Thomas Fuller – The History of the Worthies of EnglandThomas Fuller – English scholar, preacher, and author https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Fuller#ref4454 Encyclopedia Britannica 4 June 2018 en 8 April 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180408135916/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Fuller#ref4454 live John Heydon The Harmony of the WorldHeydon John The Harmony of the World: Being a Discourse Wherein the Phaenomena of Nature are Consonantly Salved and Adapted to Inferiour Intellects 1662 Henry Brome https://books.google.com/books?id=IQKHcgAACAAJ en 2020-09-21 2021-10-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20211011001617/https://books.google.com/books?id=IQKHcgAACAAJ live The English Physician's GuideHeydon John English Physician's Guide, Or A Holy Guide Kessinger Publishing Co English 21 March 1993 1564593517 Adam Olearius – The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors (translated by John Davies, of Kidwelly)Bibliographical details Retrieved 12 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170913043730/http://www.jarndyce.co.uk/online_catalogues/E-LIST1585-1752.pdf 2017-09-13 Drama Margaret Cavendish – Plays Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious and Excellent Princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle (closet dramas)Dickinson Peter Higgins Anne Pierre Paul Matthew St Solomon Diana Zwagerman Sean Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice 2014 Rowman & Littlefield 9781611476446 56 https://books.google.com/books?id=0KxEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA56 en 2020-09-21 2022-04-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20220427022845/https://books.google.com/books?id=0KxEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA56 live Aston Cockayne – The Tragedy of Ovid publishedWatson George The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature 1974 Cambridge University Press 9780521200042 1893 https://books.google.com/books?id=GwFJe0eFWMQC&pg=RA4-PA1893 en Pierre Corneille – SertoriusSertorius http://lister.history.ox.ac.uk/index-page_id=653.html lister.history.ox.ac.uk 4 June 2018 17 March 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190317062118/http://lister.history.ox.ac.uk/index-page_id=653.html live Sir William Davenant – The Law Against Lovers William Heminges – The Jews' Tragedy publishedGilliland Thomas The Dramatic Mirror: Containing the History of the Stage from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 1808 C. Chapple 373 https://books.google.com/books?id=9QAyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA373 en 2020-09-21 2022-04-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20220427022830/https://books.google.com/books?id=9QAyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA373 live Robert Howard – The CommitteeSir Robert Howard – English dramatist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Howard Encyclopedia Britannica 4 June 2018 en 21 December 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181221042944/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Howard live Francis Kirkman (probable compiler) – The Wits, or Sport for Sport (collection of drolleries)The Wits, or, Sport upon sport. Part I in select pieces of drollery, digested into scenes by way of dialogue: together with variety of humors of several nations, fitted for the pleasure and content of all persons, either in court, city, countrey, or camp: the like never before published. http://ota.ox.ac.uk/tcp/headers/A66/A66801.html ota.ox.ac.uk 4 June 2018 en 16 January 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190116075142/http://ota.ox.ac.uk/tcp/headers/A66/A66801.html live Thomas Middleton and John Webster – Anything for a Quiet Life publishedTaylor Gary Lavagnino John Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works 2007 Oxford University Press 9780199678730 67 https://books.google.com/books?id=eAoWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 en 2020-09-21 2022-04-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20220427022846/https://books.google.com/books?id=eAoWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 live Molière – The School for Wives John Wilson – The CheatsPartridge Eric A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American 2015 Routledge 9781317445524 1552 https://books.google.com/books?id=LEXeCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT1552 en 2020-09-21 2022-04-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20220427022830/https://books.google.com/books?id=LEXeCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT1552 live Poetry Joost van den Vondel – Joannes de BoetgezantWelch Anthony The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past 2012 Yale University Press 978-0300188998 1661 https://books.google.com/books?id=JfGAQZV7xhgC&pg=PA1661 en 2020-09-21 2021-10-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20211011001119/https://books.google.com/books?id=JfGAQZV7xhgC&pg=PA1661 live Michael Wigglesworth – The Day of Doom, or A Poetical Description of the Great and Last JudgementMichael Wigglesworth – American theologian and writer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Wigglesworth#ref74459 Encyclopedia Britannica 4 June 2018 en 21 December 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181221042447/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Wigglesworth#ref74459 live Births January 27 – Richard Bentley, English classicist (died 1742)2169 Bentley, Richard (1662–1742), philologist and classical scholar Hugh de Quehen 2004 October 18 – Matthew Henry, English Bible commentator (died 1714)Henry Matthew Deuteronomy – Complete Bible Commentary Verse by Verse 2018 Selected Christian Literature 9788582184141 5 https://books.google.com/books?id=jIBSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT5 en 2020-09-21 2022-04-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20220427022847/https://books.google.com/books?id=jIBSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT5 live Baptized December 17 – Samuel Wesley, English poet and author (died 1735)29070 Wesley, Samuel (bap. 1662, d. 1735), Church of England clergyman and poet Henry D. Rack 2004 unknown date – John Hudson, English classicist and librarian (died 1719)CreatorsHudson, John (1662-1719), classical scholar and Bodley's Librarian http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F47973 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk 4 June 2018 20 August 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200820092815/http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F47973 live Deaths March 10 – Samuel Hartlib, German-born English polymath (born 1600)Hartlib, Samuel http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/hartlib.html galileo.rice.edu 4 June 2018 30 May 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180530105541/http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/hartlib.html live March 30 – François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (born 1592)François Le Métel, seigneur de Boisrobert – French dramatist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francois-Le-Metel-seigneur-de-Boisrobert Encyclopedia Britannica 4 June 2018 en 21 December 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181221043132/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francois-Le-Metel-seigneur-de-Boisrobert live May – Daniel de Priézac, French political writer (born 1590)Daniel de Priezac (1590–1662) https://data.bnf.fr/12105402/daniel_de_priezac/ data.bnf.fr 4 June 2018 en 21 December 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181221091708/https://data.bnf.fr/12105402/daniel_de_priezac/ live August 17 – Richard Hubberthorne, English Quaker preacher and writer (born 1628)14018 Hubberthorne, Richard (bap. 1628, d. 1662), Quaker activist Catie Gill 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-14018 4 June 2018 en August 19 – Blaise Pascal, French philosopher (born 1623)Blaise Pascal - Biography, Facts, & Inventions https://www.britannica.com/biography/Blaise-Pascal Encyclopedia Britannica 4 June 2018 en 4 June 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180604071041/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Blaise-Pascal live unknown date – Henry Jeanes, English controversialist and pamphleteer (born 1611)14677 Jeanes, Henry (1611–1662), Church of England clergyman J. William Black http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-14677 4 June 2018 en References 30em