1691 in literature

none July 2020 1691 literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1691. Events March 17 – The Athenian Mercury begins twice-weekly publication in London.Adrian Johns The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making https://books.google.com/books?id=ERpBdEUdhz8C&pg=PA536 15 May 2009 University of Chicago Press 978-0-226-40123-2 536 May 5 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle becomes a member of the Académie française.Anthony Levi Guide to French literature: beginnings to 1789 https://books.google.com/books?id=oqkRAQAAMAAJ 1994 St. James Press 978-1-55862-159-6 293 New books Prose Adrien Baillet – La vie de monsieur DescartesProfessor of History Anthony Grafton William R. Newman Anthony Grafton Jed Z Buchwald Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe https://books.google.com/books?id=CMuJGpztRFMC&pg=PA340 2001 MIT Press 978-0-262-14075-1 340 Barbara Blaugdone – An Account of the Travels, Sufferings & Persecutions of Barbara Blaugdone. Given forth as a testimony to the Lord's power, and for the encouragement of FriendsHelen Ostovich Elizabeth Sauer Melissa Smith Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700 https://books.google.com/books?id=BRZMdU4FnVYC&pg=PA183 2004 Psychology Press 978-0-415-96646-7 183 Gerard Langbaine – An Account of the English Dramatic Poets Maximilien Misson – Nouveau voyage d'Italie Sir Dudley North – Discourses upon Trade The Kingdom of Ireland Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz Drama Anonymous – The Braggadocio, or Bawd Turn'd Puritan John Bancroft – Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March Pedro Calderon de la Barca – Céfalo y Pocris David-Augustin de Brueys & Jean Palaprat – Le Muet John Dryden – King Arthur, or the British Worthy (a "semi-opera" with music by Henry Purcell) Thomas d'Urfey – Love for Money Joseph Harris – The Mistakeshttp://www.bartleby.com/218/0100.html The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Vol. 8, The Age of Dryden 1907–1921 Bibliography 2013-04-26 William Mountfort – Greenwich Park Archibald Pitcairne and others – The Phanaticks (first published as The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation, posthumously as "by a Scots Gentleman", 1722)Archibald Pitcairne The Phanaticks MacQueen, John Woodbridge Scottish Text Society 2012 978-1-89797-635-7 Jean Racine – AthalieJean Racine Britannicus; Phaedra; Athaliah https://books.google.com/books?id=j8W5UEeDPfQC&pg=PR17 2001 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-283827-8 17 John Smith (probable author – issued anonymously) – Win Her and Take Her, or Old Fools will be Medling: a comedy"Underhill, Cave" in Dictionary of National Biography. Thomas Southerne – The Wives Excuse John Wilson – Belphegor, or the Marriage of the Devil published Births February 3 – George Lillo, English dramatist and actor (died 1739)George Lillo The plays of George Lillo https://books.google.com/books?id=51cSAQAAMAAJ 1979 Garland Pub. 978-0-8240-3601-0 xxviii February 27 – Edward Cave, English printer and publisher (died 1754) April 9 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classicist (died 1761) October 18 – John Leland, English theologian (died 1766) Deaths June 26 – John Flavel, English Presbyterian religious writer (born 1627) July 30 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and critic (born 1639) October 8 – Thomas Barlow, English religious writer and bishop (born 1609) October 10 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (born 1613) December 8 – Richard Baxter, English Puritan religious leader and writer (born 1615) Probable year of death – Samuel Pordage, English poet and cleric (born 1633) References