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1664 literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1664.
Events
February – London publisher John Twyn is hanged, drawn and quartered, having been convicted of treason for distributing seditious literature.An Exact Narrative of the Tryal and Condemnation of John Twyn for printing and dispersing of a treasonable book with the tryals of Thomas Brewster, bookseller, Simon Dover, printer, Nathan Brooks, bookbinder, for printing, publishing, and uttering of seditious, scandalous, and malitious pamphlets: at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, London, the 20th, and 22nd of February, c. 1663.
April 6 – Moses ben Isaac Bonems is the first signatory of the approbations to works given by the members of the Council of Four Lands at the Gramnitza (candlestick) fair.
May 12 – Molière's comedy Tartuffe is performed in its original version as part of "The Pleasures of the Enchanted Island" at the court of King Louis XIV to mark the start of construction of the Palace of Versailles, but objections to its presentation of a hypocritical religious impostor ban it from later public presentation.Roland Racevskis Time and ways of knowing under Louis XIV : Molière, Sévigné, Lafayette Bucknell University Press 2003 9780838755198 194
June – Gazzetta di Mantova is first published in Mantua, Italy. By 2009 it will be the world's oldest private newspaper still published, and the oldest one continuously published in print.5 The top oldest newspapers http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-260871225.html https://web.archive.org/web/20140610083636/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-260871225.html usurped 2014-06-10 Liverpool Echo England HighBeam Research subscription 2011-07-08
June 20 – Racine's tragedy La Thébaïde receives its first performance, by Molière's troupe at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris.
October – Thomas Killigrew and the King's Company stage Killigrew's The Parson's Wedding with an all-female cast. (Killigrew attempts a similar all-female production of his play Thomaso, although this is never achieved.)
November 5 – Sir William Davenant's "dramatic opera" Macbeth, adapted from Shakespeare's play, is performed for the first time.Music for Macbeth A-R Editions 2004 vii
New books
Prose
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle –
Sociable LettersMargaret Cavendish https://www.bl.uk/people/margaret-cavendish The British Library 26 March 2019 March 26, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190326131844/https://www.bl.uk/people/margaret-cavendish dead
Philosophical Letters
René Descartes – Traité de l'homme et de la formation du foetus
John Evelyn – Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber
Richard Flecknoe – A Discourse of the English Stage
John Heydon
Psonthonpanchia
Theomagia, Part 3
Lucy Hutchinson – Memoirs Of The Life Of Colonel Hutchinson
Jeremy Taylor – Dissuasive from Popery
Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler, 3rd edition
Francisco Manuel de Melo – Obras morales
Drama
Pedro Calderon de la Barca – La hija del aire
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – Henry V
Lodowick Carlell – Heraclius, Emperor of the East published (adapted from Corneille's Heraclius)
Sir William Davenant – The Rivals (an adaptation of The Two Noble Kinsmen)
Pierre Corneille – Othon
John Dryden – The Rival Ladies
John Dryden and Sir Robert Howard – The Indian Queen
George Etherege – The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub
Edward Howard – The Usurper
Thomas Killigrew – Comedies and Tragedies (collected plays)
William Killigrew – Ormasdes, or Love and Friendship, Pandora, or the Converts and Selindra (published together in one folio volume)
John Lacy – The Old Troop
Molière – Tartuffe
Katherine Philips (died June 22) – Translation of Corneille's Horace (unfinished)
Thomas Porter – The Carnival
Jean Racine – La Thébaide
William Shakespeare – Second impression of the Third Folio, adding seven plays to the 36 of the First Folio and Second: Pericles, Prince of Tyre and six works from Shakespeare Apocrypha
Joost van den Vondel – Adam in Ballingschap
John Wilson
Andronicus Comnenius
The Projectors
Poetry
Samuel Butler – Hudibras Part 2
Katherine Philips – Poems by the Incomparable Mrs. K.P.
Births
January 24 (baptised) – Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist and architect (died 1726) Vanbrugh, Sir John 27 880–881 Thomas Seccombe Thomas Seccombe
July 21 (or 23) – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (died 1721)Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese Garland 1996 875
November 9 – Henry Wharton, English writer and librarian (died 1695)
Probable year of birth
Charles Hopkins, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (died 1700)
William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist (died 1692)
Deaths
January 10 – Nicholas Culpeper, English herbalist, physician and astrologer (born 1616)
January 20 – Isaac Ambrose, English Puritan writer (born 1604)
June 22 – Katherine Philips (Orinda), English poet, translator and woman of letters (born 1632)
July 16 – Andreas Gryphius, German lyric poet and dramatist (born 1616)https://hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk/a/andreas-gryphius Andreas Gryphius Hymnology 22 November 2023
August 16 – James Heath, English Royalist historian (born 1629)DNB
August 23 – Jean Bagot, Jesuit theologian (born 1591)
November 18 – Nikola Zrinski, Croatian/Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet (born 1620)
Unknown date – Qian Qianyi (銭謙益), Chinese poet and social historian (born 1582)
Probable year of death – Henry Robinson, merchant and writer (born c. 1604)
References
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