1696 in literature

none July 2020 1696 literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1696. Events January – Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 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: Cabanel to Cory https://books.google.com/books?id=Ohhz-ZXjfd4C&pg=PA216 1975 SIU Press 978-0-8093-0692-3 216 March 5 – William Penn marries his second wife, Hannah Callowhill. September – The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, stages The Female Wits, an anti-feminist satire targeting Mary Pix, Delarivier Manley and Catherine Trotter, the three significant women dramatists of the era. The play is a hit, and runs for three nights straight (unusual in the repertory system of the day).Richard Kozar William J. Burling Summer Theatre in London, 1661-1820, and the Rise of the Haymarket Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=JZXg-dUpB8gC&pg=PA43 2000 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 978-0-8386-3811-8 43 November 21 – John Vanbrugh's first play, the comedy The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger, a sequel to Love's Last Shift, is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with Cibber in the cast.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 200–201 0-7126-5616-2 unknown date The Tuscan poet Vincenzo da Filicaja becomes governor of Volterra. Chapbook peddlers in England are required to hold a licence. New books Fiction John Aubrey – MiscellaniesMark A. Schneider Culture and Enchantment https://books.google.com/books?id=P2z4mqaHG4oC&pg=PA1 15 December 1993 University of Chicago Press 978-0-226-73927-4 1 en Philip Ayres – The Revengeful Mistress Aphra Behn (died 1689) – The Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn Charles Leslie – The Snake in the Grass Mary Pix – The Inhumane Cardinal; or, Innocence Betray'd (novel) John Suckling – The Works of Sir John Suckling John Tillotson – The Works of John Tillotson Drama John Banks – Cyrus the Great, or The Tragedy of Love Aphra Behn – The Younger Brother Colley Cibber – Love's Last Shift Thomas Dilke – The City Lady Thomas Doggett – The Country WakeThomas DOGGET The Country Wake: a comedy. In five acts and in prose https://books.google.com/books?id=HeZiAAAAcAAJ 1696 Thomas D'Urfey – The Comical History of Don Quixote. The Third Part George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne – The She-Gallants Joseph Harris – The City Bride; or, The Merry Cuckold (adapted from A Cure for a Cuckold) Charles Hopkins – Neglected VirtueGeorge Watson Ian R. Willison J. D. Pickles The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=5-s8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA765 2 July 1971 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-07934-1 765– Delarivier Manley The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband The Royal Mischief Peter Anthony Motteux Love's a Jest She Ventures and He WinsShe Ventures, and He Wins. A comedy ... https://books.google.com/books?id=S26CzQEACAAJ 1696 For Hen. Rhodes Mary Pix The Spanish Wives Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperour of the TurksGeorge Watson Ian R. Willison J. D. Pickles The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=5-s8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA797 2 July 1971 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-07934-1 797– Edward Ravenscroft – The Anatomist, or the Sham Doctor Thomas Southerne – Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: a tragedy (adapted from Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko - published) John Vanbrugh – The Relapse Poetry Nicholas Brady and Nahum Tate – New Version of the Psalms of David John Dryden – An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell (died 1695)John Dryden The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV: Plays: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon https://books.google.com/books?id=wGNgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA330 29 September 1976 University of California Press 978-0-520-02129-7 330 John Oldmixon – Poems on Several Occasions Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Poems on Several Occasions Nahum Tate – Miscellanea Sacra; or, Poems on Divine & Moral Subjects Non-fiction Richard Baxter – Reliquiae Baxterianae (posthumous) John Bellers – Proposals for Raising a College of Industry of All Useful Trades and HusbandryW.H.G. Armytage Heavens Below: Utopian Experiments in England, 1560-1960 https://books.google.com/books?id=OdhXAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA30 15 October 2013 Routledge 978-1-134-52943-8 30 Gerard Croese – The General History of the Quakers (translation) Judith Drake (attributed) – An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (anonymous) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Analyse des infiniment petits pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes Delarivier Manley – Letters Written by Mrs. Manley William Penn – Primitive Christianity Revived in the Faith and Practice of the People called QuakersWilliam Penn Primitive Christianity Revived in the Faith and Practice of the People Called Quakers https://books.google.com/books?id=DueA-TB29VEC&pg=PA36 1857 Miller & Burlock 3 John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby – The Character of Charles II, King of England John Toland – Christianity not MysteriousBerman, David Honderich, Ted The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Oxford University Press Oxford 1995 877 0-19-866132-0 registration https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00hond/page/877 William Whiston – A New Theory of the Earth Births July 14 – William Oldys, English antiquary, bibliographer and poet (died 1761) September 25 – Madame du Deffand, French literary hostess (died 1780)Katharina M. Wilson Paul Schlueter June Schlueter Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=oeFcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT122 16 December 2013 Routledge 978-1-135-61670-0 122 October 13 – John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English memoirist and courtier (died 1743) Unknown date – Matthew Green, English writer of light verse and customs official (died 1737) Deaths January 3 – Mary Mollineux, English Quaker poet (born c.1651) March 14 – Jean Domat, French jurist (born 1625)Holthöfer Ernst 180 Domat, Jean Michael Stolleis Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert 2nd 2001 Beck München de 3-406-45957-9 March 18 – Bonaventura Baron, Irish theologian, philosopher and writer in Latin (born 1610) April 17 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French author (born 1626)Arthur Augustus Tilley Madame de Sévigné: Some Aspects of Her Life and Character Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2016 154 978-1-31662-004-5 April 27 – Simon Foucher, French polemic philosopher (born 1644) May 10 – Jean de La Bruyère, French essayist (born 1645)Jean de La Bruyère Characters https://books.google.com/books?id=HPMPAQAAIAAJ 1970 Penguin Books 978-0-14-044221-2 13 en June 9 – Antoine Varillas, French historian (born 1626)Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge C. Knight 1843 144 August 9 – Wacław Potocki, Polish nobleman (Szlachta), moralist, Baroque poet and writer (born 1621) September 8 – Henry Birkhead, English academic, lawyer, Latin poet and founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry (born 1617) November 26 – Gregório de Matos, Brazilian Baroque poet (born 1636) December 31 – Samuel Annesley, English Puritan minister noted for his sermons (born c.1620)John A Newton ‘ Samuel Annesley 1620-1696)’ Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society v.XLV 1985-6 pp 29-45 p.37 Unknown dates Jón Magnússon, Icelandic writer (born c. 1610) Gesshū Sōko (月舟宗胡), Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher, poet and calligrapher (born 1618) References