1672 in literature
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Events from the year 1672 in literature.
Events
- January 25 â London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is destroyed by fire.[1] The King's Company moves to the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which the rival Duke's Company left the previous year.
- June â Thomas Killigrew mounts another all-female production of his The Parson's Wedding with the King's Company.[2] (The first occurred in 1664.) Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster and Dryden's The Maiden Queen are also staged with all-women casts and new prologues by Dryden for the productions.
- September 13 â John Bunyan is released after twelve years' imprisonment for preaching without a licence.[3]
- December â John Dryden's play Marriage à la Mode is first performed in London by the King's Company.[4]
- The Mercure de France is first published, under the title Mercure galant.[5]
New books
Prose
- Nicolás Antonio â Bibliotheca Hispana Nova[6]
- Nicolas Denys â Description Géographique et Historique des Costes de lâAmérique Septentrionale (Description and Natural History of the Coasts of North America)
- Richard Cumberland â De legibus naturae (On natural laws)
- Melchor Fuster â Conceptos predicables
- Gadla Walatta Petros (Ethiopian hagiography in Ge'ez language)[7]
- Nathaniel Hodges â Loimologia[8]
- James Janeway â A Token for Children, Part 2
- John Milton â Art of Logic
- Pierre Nicole â A Discourse Against Plays and Romances
- César Vichard de Saint-Réal â Dom Carlos
Drama
- Anonymous â Emilia (adapted from the Costanza di Rosamondo of Aurelio Aureli)
- Anonymous â The Illustrious Slaves
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Eco y Narciso
- El hijo del sol, Faetón
- La niña de Gómez Arias
- Thomas Corneille â Ariane
- John Dryden
- The Assignation
- Marriage à la mode (first performed; published the following year)[9]
- John Lacy (published)
- The Dumb Lady, or The Farrier Made Physician
- The Old Troop, or Monsier Ragou
- Molière â Les Femmes Savantes
- Henry Nevil Payne â The Morning Ramble
- Jean Racine â Bajazet
- Edward Ravenscroft â The Citizen Turned Gentleman
- Thomas Shadwell
- Epsom Wells
- The Miser
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and others â The Rehearsal (published)
Poetry
- Miguel de Barrios â El coro de las musas
Births
- January 18 â Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer, (died 1731)[10]
- March â Sir Richard Steele, Irish dramatist, satirist and politician (died 1729)[11]
- May 1 â Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet and politician (died 1719)[12]
- August 2 â Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist, historian and travel writer (died 1733)
- October 27 â Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna, Swedish writer (died 1737)[13]
Deaths
- June 14 â Matthew Wren, English scholar and cleric (born 1629)
- June 20 â Alonso Andrada, Spanish biographer and ascetic writer (born 1590)
- September 12 â Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French classicist (born 1615)[14]
- September 16 â Anne Bradstreet, pioneering American female author (born c. 1612)[15]
- November 21 â Robert Creighton, Scottish classicist, politician and bishop (born 1593)
- December 27 â Jacques Rohault, French philosopher (born 1618)[16]