1671 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1671.
Events
- February â Nell Gwyn retires from the stage and moves into a brick townhouse at 79 Pall Mall, London.[1]
- November 9 â The Duke's Company open their new venue, the Dorset Garden Theatre.
- Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières is awarded the first prize given for poetry by the Académie française.[2]
- Philosophus Autodidactus, the first Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's 12th century tale Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, prepared by Edward Pococke before 1660, is published for the first time.
New books
Prose
- Edward Bagshaw (attributed) â The Life and Death of Mr Vavasor Powell
- Edward Burrough (died 1663) â The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: Namely, that True Prophet, and Faithful Servant of God, and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus, Edward Burroughs...
- Marie-Catherine de Villedieu â Les Amours des Grands Hommes
- Johann Ferdinand Hertodt â Crocologia
- John Josselyn â New England's Rarities, discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country (London)
- Gottfried Leibniz â Hypothesis Physica Nova (`New Physical Hypothesis')
- Pierre Martin de La Martinière â Voyage des pays septentrionaux (A New Voyage to the North)
- Arnoldus Montanus â De nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld of Beschryving van America (The Unknown New World or Description of the Continent America)
- Isaac Newton â Method of Fluxions
- Jane Sharp â The Midwives Book: or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered
Children
- James Janeway â A Token for Children (two parts)
Drama
- Aphra Behn â The Amorous Prince (adapted from Robert Davenport's The City Nightcap)
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca â El santo rey don Fernando
- John Caryll â Sir Solomon Single
- Pierre Corneille â Tite et Bérénice
- John Corye â The Generous Enemies
- John Crowne
- John Dryden â The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery
- Edward Howard â The Six Days' Adventure
- Elizabeth Polwheele â The Frolicks
- Samuel Pordage â Herod and Mariamne
- Edward Ravenscroft â Mamamouchi
- Edward Revet â The Town Shifts
- Elkanah Settle â Cambyses
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham & others â The Rehearsal
- William Wycherley â Love in a Wood
Poetry
Births
- April 6 â Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French dramatist and poet (died 1741)
- September 7 â Antoine Danchet, French dramatist and poet (died 1748)
- November 6 â Colley Cibber, English playwright and Poet Laureate (died 1757)
- Unknown date â Gustaf Adlerfelt, Swedish historian (died 1709)
- Unknown date, possibly 1672 â Sarah Dixon, English poet (died 1765)
Deaths
- January 1 â Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, French historian and cleric (born 1606)
- January 22 â Odorico Raynaldi, Italian historian (born 1595)
- February 22 â Adam Olearius, German librarian and scholar (born 1603)
- July 14 â Méric Casaubon, Swiss-born English classicist (born 1599)
- September 28 â Jean de Montigny, French philosopher and poet (born 1636)
- December 28 â Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classicist (born 1611)