1690 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1690.
Events
- December 10 â Playwright Henry Nevil Payne is tortured for his role in the Montgomery Plot to restore James II to the throne â the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain.
- Colley Cibber becomes an actor with the Drury Lane company.
New books
Prose
- Nicholas Barbon â A Discourse of Trade
- Pierre Bayle (attributed) â Avis important aux réfugiés
- Sir Thomas Browne (posthumously) â A Letter to a Friend
- Antoine Furetière (posthumously) â Dictionnaire universel
- John Locke
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (dated this year but published 1689)
- Two Treatises of Government
- Samuel Pepys â Memoires of the Navy
- Baro Urbigerus â Aphorismi Urbigerani
Drama
- John Bancroft â King Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March
- Aphra Behn (posthumously) â The Widow Ranter
- Thomas Betterton â The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian (adapted from Fletcher and Massinger's The Prophetess, with music by Henry Purcell)
- Edmé Boursault â Esope à la ville
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery â Mr. Anthony
- John Crowne â The English Friar
- John Dryden
- William Mountfort â The Successful Strangers
- George Powell
- Elkanah Settle â Distress'd Innocence, or The Princess of Persia
- Thomas Shadwell â The Scourers
- Thomas Southerne â Sir Anthony Love
- "W. C." â The Rape Reveng'd, or the Spanish Revolution (adapted from William Rowley's All's Lost by Lust)
Poetry
- Thomas D'Urfey:
- Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster[1]
- New Poems
- See also 1690 in poetry
- Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza â Obras lÃricas y cómicas, divinas y humanas
Births
- February 3 â Richard Rawlinson, English antiquary and cleric (died 1755)
- September 12 â Peter Dens, Netherlandish theologian (died 1775)
- 1689/90 â Susanna Highmore, English poet (died 1750)
Deaths
- March 21 â Henry Teonge, English diarist and cleric (born 1621)
- May 5 â Theodore Haak, German-born English translator and natural philosopher (born 1605)
- May 12 â John Rushworth, English author of Historical Collections (born c. 1612)
- October 3 â Robert Barclay, Scottish Quaker writer (born c. 1648)
- October 25 â Cornelius Hazart, Dutch Jesuit controversialist (born 1617)
- Unknown date â Franciscus Plante, Dutch poet (born 1613)[2]
- Probable year of death â Jeremias Felbinger, German writer, teacher and lexicographer (born 1616)