1691 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1691.
Events
- March 17 â The Athenian Mercury begins twice-weekly publication in London.[1]
- May 5 â Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle becomes a member of the Académie française.[2]
New books
Prose
- Adrien Baillet â La vie de monsieur Descartes[3]
- Barbara Blaugdone â An Account of the Travels, Sufferings & Persecutions of Barbara Blaugdone. Given forth as a testimony to the Lord's power, and for the encouragement of Friends[4]
- Gerard Langbaine â An Account of the English Dramatic Poets
- Maximilien Misson â Nouveau voyage d'Italie
- Sir Dudley North â Discourses upon Trade
- The Kingdom of Ireland
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz â Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz
Drama
- Anonymous â The Braggadocio, or Bawd Turn'd Puritan
- John Bancroft â Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca â Céfalo y Pocris
- David-Augustin de Brueys & Jean Palaprat â Le Muet
- John Dryden â King Arthur, or the British Worthy (a "semi-opera" with music by Henry Purcell)
- Thomas d'Urfey â Love for Money
- Joseph Harris â The Mistakes[5]
- William Mountfort â Greenwich Park
- Archibald Pitcairne and others â The Phanaticks (first published as The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation, posthumously as "by a Scots Gentleman", 1722)[6]
- Jean Racine â Athalie[7]
- John Smith (probable author â issued anonymously) â Win Her and Take Her, or Old Fools will be Medling: a comedy[8]
- Thomas Southerne â The Wives Excuse
- John Wilson â Belphegor, or the Marriage of the Devil published
Births
- February 3 â George Lillo, English dramatist and actor (died 1739)[9]
- February 27 â Edward Cave, English printer and publisher (died 1754)
- April 9 â Johann Matthias Gesner, German classicist (died 1761)
- October 18 â John Leland, English theologian (died 1766)
Deaths
- June 26 â John Flavel, English Presbyterian religious writer (born 1627)
- July 30 â Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and critic (born 1639)
- October 8 â Thomas Barlow, English religious writer and bishop (born 1609)
- October 10 â Isaac de Benserade, French poet (born 1613)
- December 8 â Richard Baxter, English Puritan religious leader and writer (born 1615)
- Probable year of death â Samuel Pordage, English poet and cleric (born 1633)