1690 in literature
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The year 1690 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- December 10 - Playwright Henry Nevil Payne is tortured for his role in the "Montgomery Plot" to restore James II to the throne — the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain.
- Colley Cibber becomes an actor with the Drury Lane company.
[edit] New books
- Nicholas Barbon - A Discourse of Trade.
- Pierre Bayle (attr.) - Avis important aux refugies.
- Sir Thomas Browne - A Letter to a Friend (published posthumously).
- John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
- Samuel Pepys - Memoires of the Navy.
- Baro Urbigerus - Aphorismi Urbigerani
[edit] New drama
- John Bancroft - King Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March
- Aphra Behn - The Widow Ranter (published posthumously)
- Thomas Betterton - The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian (adapted from Fletcher and Massinger's The Prophetess; with music by Henry Purcell)
- Edmé Boursault - Esope à la ville
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - Mr. Anthony published
- John Crowne - The English Friar, or the Town Sparks
- John Dryden
- Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias
- Don Sebastian
- George Powell
- Alphonso, King of Naples
- The Treacherous Brothers
- Elkanah Settle - Distress'd Innocence, or The Princess of Persia
- Thomas Shadwell - The Scourers
- Thomas Southerne - Sir Anthony Love
- "W. C." - The Rape Reveng'd, or the Spanish Revolution (adapted from William Rowley's All's Lost by Lust)
[edit] Poetry
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[edit] Births
- February 3 - Richard Rawlinson, collector of manuscripts and curiosities (died 1755)
- September 12 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (died 1775)
[edit] Deaths
- May 12 - John Rushworth, author of Historical Collections (born c.1612)
- October 3 - Robert Barclay, Quaker writer (born c.1648)
- date unknown - Franciscus Plante, poet (born 1613)
