1696 in literature
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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.
- 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.[1]
- 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).
- The Tuscan poet Vincenzo da Filicaja becomes governor of Volterra.
New books
Fiction
- John Aubrey – Miscellanies
- 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, or The Amorous Jilt
- Colley Cibber – Love's Last Shift
- Thomas Doggett – The Country Wake
- 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 Virtue; or, The Unhappy Conquerour
- Delarivier Manley
- The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband
- The Royal Mischief
- Peter Anthony Motteux
- Love's a Jest
- She Ventures and He Wins
- Mary Pix
- The Spanish Wives
- Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperour of the Turks
- 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 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 Husbandry
- Gerard Croese – The General History of the Quakers (translation)
- Judith Drake (attributed) – An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (anonymous)
- Delarivier Manley – Letters Written by Mrs. Manley
- William Penn – Primitive Christianity Revived in the Faith and Practice of the People called Quakers
- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby – The Character of Charles II, King of England
- John Toland – Christianity not Mysterious[2]
- 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)[3]
- 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 18 – Bonaventura Baron, Irish theologian, philosopher and writer in Latin (born 1610)
- April 27 – Simon Foucher, French polemic philosopher (born 1644)
- May 10 – Jean de La Bruyère, French essayist (born 1645)
- June 9 – Antoine Varillas, French historian (born 1626)
- 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)
- 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
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 200–201. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Berman, David (1995). Honderich, Ted (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 877. ISBN 0-19-866132-0.
- ^ Katharina M. Wilson; Paul Schlueter; June Schlueter (16 December 2013). Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-135-61670-0.