1663 in literature

none thumb | right | The title page of Johann Schröder's book "Boken Theatri Europæi" released in 1663 1663 literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1663. Events February The Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (Academy of the Humanities) is founded in Paris.Joseph Charles Kiger International Encyclopedia of Learned Societies and Academies https://books.google.com/books?id=8owYAAAAIAAJ 1993 Greenwood Press 978-0-313-27646-0 133 Katherine Philips' translation of Pierre Corneille's Pompée is produced successfully at the Theatre Royal, Dublin (Smock Alley Theatre) in Ireland, as the first rhymed version of a French tragedy in English and the first English play written by a woman to be performed on a professional stage. It is published in Dublin and London later in the year.Laura Lunger Knoppers The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing https://books.google.com/books?id=X9t7xqniIZYC&pg=PA261 8 October 2009 Cambridge University Press 978-1-139-82836-9 261 London printer John Twyn is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn for producing the anonymous A Treatise of the Execution of Justice, justifying civil rebellion.John Mullan Anonymity London Faber 2007 978-0-571-19514-5 138-41 February 24 – John Milton marries his third wife, Elizabeth Minshull, 31 years his junior, at St Mary Aldermary in the City of London. May 7 – The King's Company inaugurates its new theatre, the first Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, with a revival of Fletcher's The Humorous Lieutenant.Samuel Pepys Diary May 1663 http://www.pepys.info/1663/1663may.html 2014-01-08 2014-01-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20140104213709/http://www.pepys.info/1663/1663may.html dead Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 270 The play succeeds and runs for twelve nights in a row, unusual under the repertory system of the time. August – The Playhouse to Be Let, an anthology of work by Sir William Davenant, is performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.Philip H. Highfill Kalman A. Burnim Edward A. Langhans A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Garrick to Gyngell https://books.google.com/books?id=gNMcx7IQvSUC&pg=PA278 1978 SIU Press 978-0-8093-0833-0 278 December 1 – John Dryden marries Elizabeth, sister of Sir Robert Howard.David Hopkins John Dryden https://books.google.com/books?id=3zVtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-7463-1028-1 26– Dryden and John Aubrey become Fellows of the Royal Society in the same year. unknown dates In the Electorate of Bavaria, a legal deposit law requires copies of all newly printed books to be deposited in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.Diane Koen Traci Engel Lesneski Library Design for the 21st Century: Collaborative Strategies to Ensure Success https://books.google.com/books?id=RiXGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA157 3 December 2018 De Gruyter 978-3-11-061753-5 157 In England, Roger L'Estrange is appointed Surveyor of the Imprimery and Printing PressesThe Censorship of L'Estrange http://www.bartleby.com/221/1402.html The Cambridge History of English and American Literature 2011-11-14 L'Estrange, Sir Roger 236 and licenser of the press. The Third Folio of Shakespeare's plays is published by Philip Chetwinde in London, adding Pericles and six plays of Shakespeare Apocrypha to the canon. Publication takes place at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the "Eliot Indian Bible" (Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God) makes it the first complete Bible published in the Americas. The translation by the English-born Puritan missionary John Eliot of the Geneva Bible from English into the Massachusett language (Natic or Wômpanâak) variety of the Algonquian languages is printed by Samuel Green.https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bibles/other-bibles.html#obj12 The Eliot Indian Bible: First Bible Printed in America Library of Congress Bible Collection 2008 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2014-12-02 New books Prose Molière – fr La Critique de l'école des femmesAndrew Calder Molière: The Theory and Practice of Comedy https://books.google.com/books?id=lSwRldA0xioC&pg=PA2 21 January 2002 A&C Black 978-0-485-12127-8 2 John Spencer – A Discourse concerning Prodigies, wherein the vanety of Presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper Ends asserted and vindicated Drama Anonymous – The Wandering Whores' Complaint for Want of Trading (published) Miguel de Barrios – es El Espanjol de Oran Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – The General George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (after Jonson) – Sir Politic Would-Be Pedro Calderón de la Barca es El divino Orfeo es El mágico prodigioso Henry Cary – The Marriage Night Abraham Cowley – The Cutter of Coleman Street William Davenant The Playhouse to Be Let (performed) The Siege of Rhodes Part 2 (published) John Dryden – The Wild Gallant Andreas Gryphius la Absurda Comica, de oder Herr Peter Squentz Papinianus Edward Howard – The Usurper (first performance; published 1667)Retrieved 3 January 2017. James Howard – The English Monsieur Sir Robert Howard – The Committee "T. P." – A Witty Combat, or the Female Victor (once attributed to Thomas Porter) Thomas Porter – The Villain Richard Rhodes – Flora's Vagaries Sir Robert Stapylton The Stepmother The Slighted MaidGeorge Villiers Duke of Buckingham The Rehearsal https://books.google.com/books?id=6w0JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA128 1869 A. Murray 128 Sir Samuel Tuke – The Adventures of Five Hours (adapted from Antonio Coello's es Los empeños de seis horas) Poetry Abraham Cowley – Verses Upon Several Occasions Sir William Davenant – Poem, to the King’s most sacred Majesty Births February 12 – Cotton Mather, New England Puritan author and minister (died 1728) March 6 – Francis Atterbury, English man of letters and bishop (died 1732 March 22 – August Hermann Francke, German theologian (died 1727) May 20 – William Bradford, American printer (died 1752) Unknown dates William King, English poet (died 1712) George Stepney, English poet (died 1707) Probable year of birth – Delarivier Manley, English novelist, playwright and pamphleteer (died 1724) Deaths April 5 – John Norton, English religious writer (born 1606) April 17 – David Questiers, Dutch poet (born 1623) July 14 – Elizabeth Egerton, countess of Bridgwater, English essayist (childbirth, born 1626) October 31 – Théophile Raynaud, French theologian (born 1583) December 5 – Severo Bonini, Italian music writer (born 1582) Unknown date – Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor, French memoirist (born c. 1606) References 30em