1696 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1696.
Events
- January â Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.[1]
- March 5 â William Penn marries his second wife, Hannah Callowhill.[2]
- September â The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, stages The Female Wits, an anti-feminist satire targeting Mary Pix, Delarivier Manley and Catherine Trotter, the three significant women dramatists of the era. The play is a hit, and runs for three nights straight (unusual in the repertory system of the day).[3]
- November 21 â John Vanbrugh's first play, the comedy The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger, a sequel to Love's Last Shift, is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with Cibber in the cast.[4]
- unknown date
- The Tuscan poet Vincenzo da Filicaja becomes governor of Volterra.
- Chapbook peddlers in England are required to hold a licence.
New books
Fiction
- John Aubrey â Miscellanies[5]
- Philip Ayres â The Revengeful Mistress
- Aphra Behn (died 1689) â The Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn
- Charles Leslie â The Snake in the Grass
- Mary Pix â The Inhumane Cardinal; or, Innocence Betray'd (novel)
- John Suckling â The Works of Sir John Suckling
- John Tillotson â The Works of John Tillotson
Drama
- John Banks â Cyrus the Great, or The Tragedy of Love
- Aphra Behn â The Younger Brother
- Colley Cibber â Love's Last Shift[1]
- Thomas Dilke â The City Lady
- Thomas Doggett â The Country Wake[6]
- Thomas D'Urfey â The Comical History of Don Quixote. The Third Part
- George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne â The She-Gallants
- Joseph Harris â The City Bride; or, The Merry Cuckold (adapted from A Cure for a Cuckold)[7]
- Charles Hopkins â Neglected Virtue[7]
- Delarivier Manley
- The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband
- The Royal Mischief
- Peter Anthony Motteux
- Love's a Jest
- She Ventures and He Wins[8]
- Mary Pix
- The Spanish Wives
- Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperour of the Turks[9]
- Edward Ravenscroft â The Anatomist, or the Sham Doctor
- Thomas Southerne â Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: a tragedy (adapted from Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko - published)
- John Vanbrugh â The Relapse[4]
Poetry
- Nicholas Brady and Nahum Tate â New Version of the Psalms of David
- John Dryden â An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell (died 1695)[10]
- John Oldmixon â Poems on Several Occasions
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe â Poems on Several Occasions
- Nahum Tate â Miscellanea Sacra; or, Poems on Divine & Moral Subjects
Non-fiction
- Richard Baxter â Reliquiae Baxterianae (posthumous)
- John Bellers â Proposals for Raising a College of Industry of All Useful Trades and Husbandry[11]
- Gerard Croese â The General History of the Quakers (translation)
- Judith Drake (attributed) â An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (anonymous)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz â Analyse des infiniment petits pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes
- Delarivier Manley â Letters Written by Mrs. Manley
- William Penn â Primitive Christianity Revived in the Faith and Practice of the People called Quakers[2]
- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby â The Character of Charles II, King of England
- John Toland â Christianity not Mysterious[12]
- William Whiston â A New Theory of the Earth
Births
- July 14 â William Oldys, English antiquary, bibliographer and poet (died 1761)
- September 25 â Madame du Deffand, French literary hostess (died 1780)[13]
- October 13 â John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English memoirist and courtier (died 1743)
- Unknown date â Matthew Green, English writer of light verse and customs official (died 1737)
Deaths
- January 3 â Mary Mollineux, English Quaker poet (born c.1651)
- March 14 â Jean Domat, French jurist (born 1625)[14]
- March 18 â Bonaventura Baron, Irish theologian, philosopher and writer in Latin (born 1610)
- April 17 â Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French author (born 1626)[15]
- April 27 â Simon Foucher, French polemic philosopher (born 1644)
- May 10 â Jean de La Bruyère, French essayist (born 1645)[16]
- June 9 â Antoine Varillas, French historian (born 1626)[17]
- August 9 â WacÅaw Potocki, Polish nobleman (Szlachta), moralist, Baroque poet and writer (born 1621)
- September 8 â Henry Birkhead, English academic, lawyer, Latin poet and founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry (born 1617)
- November 26 â Gregório de Matos, Brazilian Baroque poet (born 1636)
- December 31 â Samuel Annesley, English Puritan minister noted for his sermons (born c.1620)[18]
- Unknown dates
- Jón Magnússon, Icelandic writer (born c. 1610)
- GesshÅ« SÅko (æèå®è¡), Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher, poet and calligrapher (born 1618)