1663 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1663.
Events
[edit]- February
- The Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (Academy of the Humanities) is founded in Paris.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 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.[4][5] 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.[6]
- December 1 – John Dryden marries Elizabeth, sister of Sir Robert Howard.[7] 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.[8]
- In England, Roger L'Estrange is appointed Surveyor of the Imprimery and Printing Presses[9][10] and licenser of the press.[5]
- 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.[11]
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- Molière – La Critique de l'école des femmes[12]
- 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
[edit]- Anonymous – The Wandering Whores' Complaint for Want of Trading (published)
- Miguel de Barrios – 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
- El divino Orfeo
- 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
- Absurda Comica, oder Herr Peter Squentz
- Papinianus
- Edward Howard – The Usurper (first performance; published 1667)[13]
- 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
- Sir Samuel Tuke – The Adventures of Five Hours (adapted from Antonio Coello's Los empeños de seis horas)
Poetry
[edit]- Abraham Cowley – Verses Upon Several Occasions
- Sir William Davenant – Poem, to the King’s most sacred Majesty
Births
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Joseph Charles Kiger (1993). International Encyclopedia of Learned Societies and Academies. Greenwood Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-313-27646-0.
- ^ Laura Lunger Knoppers (8 October 2009). The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing. Cambridge University Press. p. 261. ISBN 978-1-139-82836-9.
- ^ Mullan, John (2007). Anonymity. London: Faber. pp. 138–41. ISBN 978-0-571-19514-5.
- ^ "Samuel Pepys Diary May 1663". Archived from the original on 2014-01-04. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 270. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1978). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Garrick to Gyngell. SIU Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-8093-0833-0.
- ^ David Hopkins (2004). John Dryden. Oxford University Press. pp. 26–. ISBN 978-0-7463-1028-1.
- ^ Diane Koen; Traci Engel Lesneski (3 December 2018). Library Design for the 21st Century: Collaborative Strategies to Ensure Success. De Gruyter. p. 157. ISBN 978-3-11-061753-5.
- ^ "The Censorship of L'Estrange". The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
- ^
Cousin, John William (1910), "L'Estrange, Sir Roger", A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, p. 236 – via Wikisource
- ^ "The Eliot Indian Bible: First Bible Printed in America". Library of Congress Bible Collection. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. 2008. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
- ^ Andrew Calder (21 January 2002). Molière: The Theory and Practice of Comedy. A&C Black. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-485-12127-8.
- ^ Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ George Villiers Duke of Buckingham (1869). The Rehearsal. A. Murray. p. 128.
