1671 in literature
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The year 1671 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- Nell GwynNell GwynEleanor "Nell" Gwyn was a long-time mistress of King Charles II of England. Called "pretty, witty Nell" by Samuel Pepys, she has been regarded as a living embodiment of the spirit of Restoration England and has come to be considered a folk heroine, with a story echoing the rags-to-royalty tale of...
retires from the stage. - On November 9, the Duke's CompanyDuke's CompanyThe Duke's Company was one of the two theatre companies that were chartered by King Charles II at the start of the English Restoration era, when the London theatres re-opened after their eighteen-year closure during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.The Duke's Company had the patronage of...
open their new venue, the Dorset Garden TheatreDorset Garden TheatreThe Dorset Garden Theatre in London, built in 1671, was in its early years also known as the Duke of York's Theatre, or the Duke's Theatre. In 1685, King Charles II died and his brother, the Duke of York, was crowned as James II. When the Duke became King, the theatre became the Queen's Theatre in...
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New books
- Edward BagshawEdward Bagshaw (theologian)Edward Bagshaw , the younger was an English Nonconformist minister and theologian, known as a controversialist. His sympathies were with the fringe Independent sects of the Commonwealth period, and after the English Restoration of 1660 his life was embattled...
(attr.) - The Life and Death of Mr Vavasor PowellVavasor PowellVavasor Powell was a Welsh Nonconformist Puritan preacher, evangelist, church leader and writer.-Life:He was born in Knucklas, Radnorshire and was educated at Jesus College, Oxford... - Johann Ferdinand HertodtJohann Ferdinand HertodtJohann Ferdinand Hertodt von Todtenfeld was a German physician and writer, born in the town Nikolsburg, today Mikulov in Moravia.He is known for his 1671 work Crocologia, entirely devoted to saffron...
- Crocologia - James JanewayJames JanewayJames Janeway was a Puritan minister and author who, after John Bunyan, had the widest and longest popularity as the author of works read by English-speaking children.-Life:...
- A Token for Children, Part 1 - John JosselynJohn JosselynJohn Josselyn was a seventeenth-century English traveler to New England who wrote with credulity about what he saw and heard during his sojourn there before returning to England. Yet his books give some of the earliest and most complete information on New England flora and fauna in colonial times,...
- New England's Rarities, discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country (London) - Gottfried LeibnizGottfried LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician. He wrote in different languages, primarily in Latin , French and German ....
- Hypothesis Physica Nova (`New Physical Hypothesis') - Arnoldus MontanusArnoldus MontanusArnoldus Montanus was a Dutch teacher and author. He published books on theology, history, and geography of both Holland and far-away countries....
- De nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld of Beschryving van America (The Unknown New World or Description of the Continent America) - Isaac NewtonIsaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...
- Method of FluxionsMethod of FluxionsMethod of Fluxions is a book by Isaac Newton. The book was completed in 1671, and published in 1736. Fluxions is Newton's term for differential calculus... - Marie-Catherine de VilledieuMarie-Catherine de VilledieuMarie-Catherine de Villedieu, born Marie-Catherine Desjardins and generally referred to as Madame de Villedieu was a French writer of plays, novels and short fiction...
- Les Amours des Grands Hommes
New drama
- Aphra BehnAphra BehnAphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing contributed to the amatory fiction genre of British literature.-Early life:...
- The Amorous Prince (adapted from Robert DavenportRobert DavenportRobert Davenport was an English dramatist of the early seventeenth century. Nothing is known of his early life or education; the title pages of two of his plays identify him as a "Gentleman," though there is no record of him at either of the two universities or the Inns of Court. Scholars have...
's The City Nightcap) - Pierre CorneillePierre CorneillePierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine...
- Tite et Bérénice - John CrowneJohn CrowneJohn Crowne was a British dramatist and a native of Nova Scotia.His father "Colonel" William Crowne, accompanied the earl of Arundel on a diplomatic mission to Vienna in 1637, and wrote an account of his journey...
- Juliana, or the Princess of Poland - John DrydenJohn DrydenJohn Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.Walter Scott called him "Glorious John." He was made Poet...
- The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery - Edward HowardEdward Howard (playwright)Edward Howard was an English dramatist and author of the Restoration era. He was the fifth son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire, and one of four playwriting brothers: Sir Robert Howard, Colonel Henry Howard, and James Howard were the others...
- The Six Days' Adventure, or the New Utopia - Edward RavenscroftEdward RavenscroftEdward Ravenscroft , English dramatist, belonged to an ancient Flintshire family.He was entered at the Middle Temple, but devoted his attention mainly to literature. Among his pieces are...
- Mamamouchi - Elkanah SettleElkanah SettleElkanah Settle was an English poet and playwright.He was born at Dunstable, and entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1666, but left without taking a degree. His first tragedy, Cambyses, King of Persia, was produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1667...
- Cambyses - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of BuckinghamGeorge Villiers, 2nd Duke of BuckinghamGeorge Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 20th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG, PC, FRS was an English statesman and poet.- Upbringing and education :...
& others - The RehearsalThe Rehearsal (play)The Rehearsal was a satirical play aimed specifically at John Dryden and generally at the sententious and overly ambitious theatre of the Restoration tragedy. The play was staged in 1671 and published anonymously in 1672, but it is certainly by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and others... - William WycherleyWilliam WycherleyWilliam Wycherley was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.-Biography:...
- Love in a Wood
Births
- April 6 - Jean-Baptiste RousseauJean-Baptiste RousseauJean-Baptiste Rousseau was a French poet.-Biography:Rousseau was born in Paris, the son of a shoemaker, and was well educated. As a young man, he gained favour with Boileau, who encouraged him to write. Rousseau began with the theatre, for which he had no aptitude...
, poet (died 1741) - June 11 - Colley CibberColley CibberColley Cibber was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style...
(died 1757) - September 7 - Antoine DanchetAntoine DanchetAntoine Danchet was a French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet.-Biography:Danchet was born in Riom, in the Auvergne, France. Having been a professor of rhetoric at Chartres and then a tutor at Paris, Danchet gaveup teaching to write for the theatre. He wrote some opera libretti which, set...
, dramatist and poet (died 1748) - date unknown - Gustaf AdlerfeltGustaf AdlerfeltGustaf Adlerfelt was a Swedish historical writer born near Stockholm, brother of Pehr Adlerfelt.He was appointed by Charles XII "gentleman of the court" and afterwards accompanied him to his military campaigns, and writing a journal on them...
, historian (died 1709)
Deaths
- January 1 - Hardouin de Péréfixe de BeaumontHardouin de Péréfixe de BeaumontPaul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe was a French historian and clergyman. He was bishop of Rodez, then archbishop of Paris....
, historian (born 1606) - January 22 - Odorico RaynaldiOdorico RaynaldiOdorico Raynaldi or Rinaldi , was an Italian historian and Oratorian. He is also known as Odericus Raynaldus, or just Raynald.Raynaldi was born at Treviso of a patrician family...
, historian (born 1595) - February 22 - Adam OleariusAdam OleariusAdam Olearius , born Adam Ölschläger or Oehlschlaeger, was a German scholar, mathematician, geographer and librarian...
, librarian and scholar (born 1603) - July 14 - Méric CasaubonMéric CasaubonMéric Casaubon , son of Isaac Casaubon, was a French-English classical scholar...
, classical scholar (born 1599) - September 28 - Jean de MontignyJean de MontignyThe Abbé Jean de Montigny was a French philosophic writer and poet, elected to the Académie française, but who died in his prime.-Biography:...
, philosopher and poet (born 1636) - December 28 - Johann Friedrich GronoviusJohann Friedrich GronoviusJohann Friedrich Gronovius was a German classical scholar and critic....
, critic (born 1611)