1666 in literature

none May 2012 1666 literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1666. Events June 4 – Molière's comedy of manners Le Misanthrope is premièred at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris by the King's Players (Troupe du Roi).https://books.google.com/books?id=W5-nmMMLKn4C&pg=PA19 The Misanthrope and Other Plays by Molière Donald M Frame 1968 9780451524157 July – Aphra Behn goes to Antwerp to work as a government spy.Aphra Behn William R. Hersey A Critical Old-spelling Edition of Aphra Behn's the City Heiress https://books.google.com/books?id=WIiaAAAAIAAJ 1987 Garland 978-0-8240-6011-4 14 August 6 – Molière's comedy Le Médecin malgré lui ("The doctor in spite of himself") is premièred at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris by the King's Players with Molière himself playing the title character, Sganarelle.John S. Powell John Scott Powell Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680 https://books.google.com/books?id=cm4NKuoIaBkC&pg=PA406 2000 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-816599-6 406 fr September 2 – Samuel Pepys begins recording details of the Great Fire of London in his diary. The destruction of Old St Paul's Cathedral in the conflagration also destroys the stock of many London publishers, which is stored in the crypt. This probably includes unsold copies of the Third Folio of Shakespeare's works (1663). New books Prose Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux – Satires du Sieur D.... Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne – A Description of a New World Called the Blazing-WorldMargaret 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 Observations upon Experimental Philosophy John Bunyan – Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Thomas Hobbes – De principiis et ratiocinatione geometrarum Gottfried Leibniz – De Arte Combinatoria ('On the Art of Combination') Drama James Howard – The English MonsieurDr Doran, Their Majesties' Servants Or Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean... (1865), p69 William Killigrew – The Siege of Urbin (published) Molière Le Médecin malgré lui Le Misanthrope Juan de Zabaleta – El emperador Commodo Births March 21 – Ogyū Sorai, Japanese Confucian philosopher (died 1728) July 10 – John Ernest Grabe, German-born English theologian (died 1711) August 13 René Massuet, French patrologist (died 1716) William Wotton, English theologian, classicist and translator (died 1727) November 12 – Mary Astell, English feminist writer (died 1731) Unknown dates Josiah Burchett, English writer on history and Admiralty official (died 1746) Mary Pix, English novelist and dramatist (died 1709)Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 13 Western Europe (1700-1800) 2019 BRILL 978-90-04-40283-6 116 https://books.google.com/books?id=nkOxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA116 en Probable year of birth – John Harris, English encyclopedist (died 1719) Deaths June 16 – Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet, English Royalist politician, diplomat, poet and translator (born 1608) June 30 – Alexander Brome, English humorous poet and translator (born 1620) August 24 – Dom Francisco Manuel de Mello, Portuguese writer (born 1608) October 29 – James Shirley, English dramatist (born 1596) November – Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (born c. 1610) Unknown dates Gysbert Japiks, Frisian writer (born 1603) Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopedist (born 1587) References