1660 in literature
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The year 1660 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- January 1 - Samuel Pepys starts his diary.
- February - John Rhodes reopens the old Cockpit Theatre in London, forms a company of young actors and begins to stage plays. His production of Pericles will be the first Shakespearean performance of the Restoration era; Thomas Betterton makes his stage debut in the title rôle.
- May - The English Restoration: a host of royalist exiles return to England; Richard Baxter is among them.
- August 21 - King Charles II of England issues a royal grant for two theatre companies: a King's Company under his own patronage, led by Thomas Killigrew, and a Duke's Company under the patronage of his brother, the Duke of York and future King James II, led by Sir William Davenant. On 8 November, the King's Company moves from the old Red Bull Theatre to the new Vere St. Theatre.
- September 5 - Roger Boyle receives the title of Earl of Orrery.
- December 8 - First actress to appear on the professional stage in England, as Desdemona in Othello, variously considered to be Margaret Hughes, Anne Marshall or Katherine Corey.[1][2][3]
- The Klencke Atlas is commissioned by Dutch merchants as a gift to King Charles II of England; it remains to this day the world's largest book ever made.
- Blaise Pascal's Lettres Provinciales is burned as a heretical work on the orders of King Louis XIV of France.
[edit] New books
- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux - Satires
- John Dryden - Astraea Redux
- Richard Flecknoe - Heroick Portraits
- John Milton - The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth
- Thomas Plowden, S.J. (trans.) - The Learned Man Defended and Reform'd (Daniello Bartoli's L'huomo di lettere)
- Jeremy Taylor - Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience
[edit] New drama
- Anonymous (mis-attributed to James Shirley) - Andromana published
- Anonymous - Cromwell's Conspiracy
- Anonymous (mis-attributed to Beaumont and Fletcher) - The Faithful Friends registered
- Thomas Ford - Love's Labyrinth, or the Royal Shepherdess published
- William Lower - The Amorous Fantasm (adapted from Philippe Quinault's Le Fantôme Amoreux)
- Molière - Sganarelle, ou le Cocu imaginaire
- John Tatham - London's Glory staged at the Guildhall, July 5; The Rump published
[edit] Poetry
- Rachel Jevon - Exultationis Carmen
- Robert Wild - Iter Boreale
[edit] Births
- January - Pierre Helyot (died 1716)
- March 28 - Arnold Houbraken, writer and painter (died 1719)
- September - Daniel Defoe (died 1731)
- date unknown
- Edward Lhuyd, naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary (died 1709)
- Thomas Southerne, dramatist (died 1749)
[edit] Deaths
- April 30 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch scholar and writer (born 1576)
- October 6 - Paul Scarron, dramatist and novelist (born c.1610)
- December 31 - Thomas Powell, clergyman and writer (born c.1608)
- date unknown - Sir Thomas Urquhart (born 1611)
[edit] References
- ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ Howe, Elizabeth (1992). The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700. Cambridge University Press. p. 24.
- ^ Gilder, Rosamond (1931). Enter the Actress: The First Women in the Theatre. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 166.
