1693 in literature

none 1693 literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1693. Events February 27 – March 17 – John Dunton publishes The Ladies' Mercury in London, the first periodical specifically for women. March – William Congreve's first play, the comedy The Old Bachelor, is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama 4 Stanley Hochman 542 May – William Bradford prints the first book in New York, George Keith's New-England's Spirit of Persecution Transmitted to Pennsylvania.When Was the First Book Printed in NYC? http://www.nyhistory.org/community/first-book-printed-in-nyc New–York Historical Society 2013-10-29The First Year of Printing in New York, May, 1693 to April, 1694 https://archive.org/details/firstyearofprint00eame Eames Wilberforce Wilberforce Eames New York Public Library 1928 July 29 – Anthony Wood is condemned in the vice-chancellor's court of the University of Oxford for libels against Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. He is fined and banished from the university until he recants. The offending pages are burned. October – Congreve's comedy The Double Dealer is first performed at Drury Lane.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 198–200 0-7126-5616-2 unknown dates Joseph Addison addresses an early poem to John Dryden.Edward A. Bloom Lillian D. Bloom Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: The Critical Heritage https://books.google.com/books?id=NXrhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA357 31 October 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-17180-2 357 Swedish scholar Petter Salan publishes in Upsala Fortissimorum pugilum Egilli et Asmundi historiam antqvo gothico sermone exaratam, the first printed edition of the 14th century Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana. Venetian sea-captain Julije Balović compiles Pratichae Schrivaneschae, including a five-language multilingual glossary. London printer William Anderton is hanged for treason at Tyburn for producing two anonymous Jacobite pamphlets.John Mullan Anonymity London Faber 2007 978-0-571-19514-5 142 New books Fiction The Genuine Remains of Dr. Thomas Barlow (posthumous) Li Yu (李漁, probable author) – The Carnal Prayer Mat (written 1657) The Third Part of the Pilgrim's Progress (anonymous) Catherine Trotter (or Catherine Trotter Cockburn) – Olinda's Adventures; or, The Amours of a Young Lady Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux – first complete English translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel Vertue Rewarded Drama John Bancroft – Henry the Second, King of England; With the death of Rosamond William Congreve The Old Bachelor The Double Dealer Thomas D'Urfey – The Richmond Heiress, or A Woman Once in the Right Henry Higden – The Wary Widow, or Sir Noisy Parrot George Powell – A Very Good Wife (adapted from Richard Brome's The City Wit and The Court Beggar) Elkanah Settle – The New Athenian Comedy (published) Thomas Southerne – The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather Than Fail Thomas Wright – The Female Virtuosos Poetry John Dryden – Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (anthology) Non-fiction John Dennis – The Impartial Critick John Dryden – A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire John Evelyn – The Compleat Gard'ner August Hermann Francke – Manuductio ad lectionem Scripturae Sacrae Robert Gould – The Corruption of the Times by Money John Locke – Some Thoughts Concerning EducationHugh Cunningham Re-inventing childhood http://www.open2.net/theinventionofchildhood/childhood_inventions.html open2.net Open University 2010-06-16 Cotton Mather – Wonders of the Invisible World William Penn – An Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe by the Establishment of a European Dyet, Parliament or Estates Thomas Rymer – A Short View of Tragedy Gabrielle Suchon – Traité de la morale et de la politique (On Morality and Politics) Samuel Wesley – The Life of Our Blessed Lord Births March 5 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (died 1754)Hugh Chisholm James Louis Garvin The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature & general information https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn9GAQAAIAAJ 1926 The Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Ltd 564 May 10 – John Fox, English biographer (died 1763) June 17 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (died 1775)Heiner F. Klemme Manfred Kuehn The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers https://books.google.com/books?id=Zr2nCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA829 30 June 2016 Bloomsbury Academic 978-1-4742-5597-4 829 Unknown dates Fray Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A., Spanish Augustinian friar and historian (died 1746)Emma Helen Blair James Alexander Robertson The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts https://books.google.com/books?id=7bZxAAAAMAAJ 1973 Cachos Hermanos 151 Arthur Young, English religious writer and cleric (1759) probable – Eliza Haywood, English dramatist, journalist and novelist (died 1756) Deaths February 7 – Paul Pellisson, French lawyer and author (born 1624)Yust Walter Encyclopaedia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge Encyclopaedia Britannica 1952 451 April 9 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French memoirist (born 1618) May 25 – Madame de La Fayette, French writer (born 1634) May 27 – John Spencer, English scholar and cleric (born 1630) August (end) – Charles Blount, English deist author (suicide, born 1654) September 9 – Ihara Saikaku (井原西鶴), Japanese poet and author of "floating-world" fiction (born 1642) References 30em