1691 in literature
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The year 1691 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- The first of eight volumes of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy Who Lived Five and Forty Years Undiscover'd at Paris is published; subsequent volumes are issued through 1694. The project is a hoax: Volume 1 is actually the work of Italian writer Giovanni Paolo Marana, with Englishmen Roger Manley, Robert Midgeley, and William Bradshaw contributing to later volumes.
[edit] New books
- Gerard Langbaine - An Account of the English Dramatic Poets
- Sir Dudley North - Discourses upon Trade
- The Kingdom of Ireland
[edit] New drama
- Anonymous - The Braggadocio, or Bawd Turn'd Puritan
- John Bancroft - Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March
- John Dryden - King Arthur, or the British Worthy (a "semi-opera" with music by Henry Purcell)
- Thomas d'Urfey - Love for Money
- Joseph Harris - The Mistakes
- William Mountfort - Greenwich Park
- Jean Racine - Athalie
- Thomas Southerne - The Wives' Excuse, or Cuckolds Make Themselves
- Cave Underhill - Win Her and Take Her
- John Wilson - Belphegor, or the Marriage of the Devil published
[edit] Births
- February 27 - Edward Cave, printer and publisher (died 1754)
- April 9 - Johann Matthias Gesner, classical commentator (died 1761)
- date unknown - John Leland, theologian (died 1766)
[edit] Deaths
- July 30 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and critic (born 1639)
- October 10 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (born 1613)
- December 8 - Richard Baxter, religious leader and writer (born 1615)
- date unknown - John Flavel, religious writer (born 1627)
- probable - Samuel Pordage, poet
