1672 in literature
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The year 1672 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- In London, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is destroyed by fire. The King's Company moves into the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which their rivals the Duke's Company left the previous year.
[edit] New books
- Richard Cumberland - De legibus naturae (On natural laws)
- Nathaniel Hodges - Loimologia
- John Milton - Art of Logic
- Pierre Nicole - A Discourse Against Plays and Romances
[edit] New drama
- Anonymous - Emilia (adapted from the Costanza di Rosamondo of Aurelio Aureli)
- Anonymous - The Illustrious Slaves
- John Dryden - The Assignation
- - Marriage a la Mode
- Esprit Fléchier - Funeral sermon for Madame de Montausier
- John Lacy - The Old Troop published
- Molière - Les femmes savantes
- Henry Nevil Payne - The Morning Ramble
- Jean Racine - Bajazet
- Thomas Shadwell - Epsom Wells
- - The Miser
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - The Rehearsal published
[edit] Births
- January 18 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte (died 1731)
- May 1 - Joseph Addison (died 1719)
- August 2 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (died 1733)
[edit] Deaths
- September 12 - Tanneguy Lefebvre (born 1615)
- September 16 - Anne Bradstreet, first American female author to be published (born c.1612)
- December 7 - Richard Bellingham, later a character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (born 1592)
