1680 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1680.
Events
- February â Thomas Otway's blank verse tragedy The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage is premiered in London.[1]
- The spring/summer production of Nathaniel Lee's Theodosius at Dorset Garden features Henry Purcell's earliest theatre music.
- August 8 â The Comédie-Française is founded by decree of King Louis XIV to merge the two Parisian acting troupes of the time, those of the Guénégaud Theatre and the Hôtel de Bourgogne.
- unknown dates
- The poem-book Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe is transcribed by Ruairà à hUiginn of Sligo at the command of Cormac à Neill.
- Innerpeffray Library, the oldest known (and surviving) public (lending) library in Scotland, is established.[2]
New books
Prose
- John Bunyan â The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
- Gilbert Burnet â Some Passages of the Life and Death of...John Earl of Rochester
- Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz â Neptuno alegórico
- Pedro Cubero â Peregrinación del mundo
- Pu Songling â Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (in manuscript only)
- Sir Robert Filmer â Patriarcha published (written 1642)
Drama
- Aphra Behn â The Revenge
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca â Hado y Divisa de Leonido y Marfisa
- John Crowne â The Misery of Civil War, adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2 and Part 3
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle â Aspar
- Nathaniel Lee
- Lewis Maidwell â The Loving Enemies
- Thomas Otway
- The History and Fall of Caius Marius published
- The Orphan
- The Soldier's Fortune
- Jacques Pradon â Statira
- Elkanah Settle
- Nahum Tate â The Loyal General
- William Whitaker â The Conspiracy
Births
- January 23 â Joseph Ames, English author (died 1759)
- September 22 â Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (died 1747)
- Unknown dates
- Nicola Coleti, Italian historian and priest (died 1765)
- Lady Elizabeth Germain, English philanthropist and correspondent (died 1769)
- Probable year of birth
- Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopedist (died 1740)
- Cathal Buà Mac Giolla Ghunna, Irish poet in Gaelic (died 1756)
- Nezim Frakulla, Albanian poet (died 1760)
Deaths
- January 20 â Ann, Lady Fanshawe, English memoirist (born 1625)[3]
- March 14 â René Le Bossu, French critic (born 1631)
- March 17 â François de La Rochefoucauld, French dramatist and writer of maxims (born 1613)
- March 27 â William Maurice, Welsh antiquary (born c.1620)
- June 18 â Samuel Butler, English satirical poet (born 1612)
- July 3 â John Martyn, English publisher and bookseller
- July 26 â John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (born 1647)
- November â Carr Scrope, English poet (born 1649)
- December 4 â Thomas Bartholin, Danish scientist and theologian (born 1616)
- unknown date â François de Grenaille, French dramatist and translator (born 1616)[4]