1679 in literature
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This article lists some of the most significant events of the year 1679 in literature.
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[edit] Events
- John Locke returns to England from France.
- Étienne Baluze becomes almoner to King Louis XIV of France.
- Thomas Otway returns from military service in the Netherlands.
- In June, Nathaniel Lee's play The Massacre at Paris (about the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, as was Marlowe's play of the same title) was suppressed by the Stuart regime as anti-French. (The French were English allies at the time.)
[edit] New books
- Beaumont and Fletcher - the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio
- Charles Blount - Anima Mundi
[edit] New drama
- Aphra Behn - The Feigned Courtesans
- The Young King
- John Crowne - The Ambitious Statesman, or the Loyal Favourite
- John Dryden - Oedipus
- Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too Late (adapted from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida)
- Nathaniel Lee - Caesar Borgia
- The Massacre at Paris
- Thomas Otway - The History and Fall of Caius Marius
- Jacques Pradon - La Troade
- Thomas Shadwell - The Woman Captain
[edit] Poetry
- "Ephelia" (Mary Villiers?) - Female Poems...by Ephelia
[edit] Births
- January 24 - Christian Wolff (philosopher) (died 1745)
- August 16 - Catherine Trotter Cockburn, novelist, dramatist and philosopher (died 1749)
- September 11 - Thomas Parnell, clergyman and poet (died 1718)
- September 24 - Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, soldier and poet (died 1750)
- September 26 - Johann Gottlob Carpzov, Biblical scholar (died 1767)
- October 26 - Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen, printer (died c. 1750)
- date unknown
- Abel Evans, poet (died 1737)
- Charles Johnson, dramatist (died 1748)
- Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (died 1734)
- probable - Penelope Aubin, novelist and translator (died c. 1731)
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Joannes Lucius, Dalmatian historian (born 1604)
- February 5 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist (born 1587)
- April 4 - Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, German poet (born 1616)
- October 12 - William Gurnall, religious writer (born 1617)
- October 26 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (born 1621)
- December 4 - Thomas Hobbes, philosopher (born 1588)
- date unknown
- Jacob Alting, philologist and theologian (born 1618)
- Johann Michael Vansleb, theologian and linguist (born 1635)