1695 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1695.
Events
- April â The Parliament of England decides not to renew the Licensing Order of 1643, thus effectively abolishing most press censorship.[1]
- unknown dates
- After twelve years of de facto theatrical monopoly in London, the senior actors of the mismanaged United Company break away to form a rival cooperative company led by Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle. This makes a brilliant start with the première on April 30 of William Congreve's comedy Love for Love, at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields.[2]
- Antoine Le Maistre and his brother Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy complete their translation of the Catholic Bible into French (the Bible de Port-Royal).[3]
- Wren Library, Cambridge, the library of Trinity College, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.[4]
New books
Prose
- Mary Astell (anonymous) â A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest
- Charles Blount â Miscellaneous Works (ed. Charles Gildon)
- Gilbert Burnet â An Essay on the Memory of the Late Queen (see 1694 in literature, as many memorials were written to Mary II of England)
- Jeremy Collier â Miscellanies upon Moral Subjects: The second part
- John Dennis â The Court of Death
- John Dryden â De Arte Graphica (trans. of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy)
- Laurence Echard â The Roman History (vol. I)
- "N. H." â The Ladies Dictionary, being a general entertainment of the fair-sex: a work never attempted before in English (published by John Dunton)
- Nicolaas Heinsius the Younger â The Delightful Adventures and Wonderful Life of Mirandor (Den vermakelijken Avanturier)
- William Laud â The History of the Troubles and Tryal of William Laud
- John Locke
- Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money
- The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures
- A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity (reply to John Edwards)
- John Norris â Letters Concerning the Love of God (letters to Mary Astell)
- Sir William Petty â Quantulumcunque Concerning Money (published posthumously)
- John Phillips â A Reflection on Our Modern Poetry
- Sujan Rai â Khulasat-ut-Tawarikh
- Robert South â Tritheism (vs. William Sherlock)
- Sir William Temple â An Introduction to the History of England
- Lionel Wafer â A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America
- Ned Ward â Female Policy Detected; or, The Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open
- Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou (compiled and edited) â Guwen Guanzhi, anthology of more than 200 works from Warring States period to Ming dynasty
Children
- Charles Perrault â Histoires ou contes du temps passé. Les Contes de ma Mère lâOye (Tales and stories of the past with morals. Tales of Mother Goose)
Drama
- John Banks â Cyrus the Great
- Catherine Trotter Cockburn â Agnes de Castro
- William Congreve â Love for Love
- Robert Gould â The Rival Sisters
- George Granville â The She-Gallants
- Charles Hopkins â Pyrrhus King of Epirus
- Peter Anthony Motteux â The Loves of Mars and Venus
- George Powell â Bonduca, or the British Heroine
- Elkanah Settle â Philaster; or, Love Lies A-Bleeding (adapted from Fletcher's Philaster)
- Thomas Scott â The Mock Marriage
- Thomas Southerne â Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: a tragedy (adapted from Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko)
- Ariadne â She Ventures and He Wins
Poetry
- Joseph Addison â A Poem to His Majesty
- Richard Blackmore â Prince Arthur
- Colley Cibber â A Poem on the Death of our Late Sovereign Lady, Queen Mary
- William Congreve â The Mourning Muse of Alexas: A pastoral (on Mary II)
- John Milton â The Poetical Works of Mr John Milton (ed. Patrick Hume)
- Matthew Prior â An English Ballad: In answer to Mr Despreaux's Pindarique ode on the taking of Namure
- Richard Steele â The Procession: A poem on Her Majesties funeral
- See also 1695 in poetry
Births
- April 8 â Johann Christian Günther, German poet (died 1723)
- September 20 â Hedvig Catharina Lillie, Swedish salonnière (died 1745)[5]
Deaths
- February 7 â Dorothy Osborne (Lady Temple), English letter writer (born 1627)
- April 13 â Jean de la Fontaine, French poet and fabulist (born 1621)
- April 17 â Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican poet (born 1651; plague)
- April 23 â Henry Vaughan, Welsh metaphysical poet (born 1622)
- June 11 â André Félibien, French court historian (born 1619)
- August 12 â Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist (born 1610)
- October â Sir William Killigrew, English playwright and courtier (born 1606)
- November 28 â Anthony Wood, English antiquary (born 1632)