1693 in literature
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The year 1693 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- July 29 - Anthony Wood is condemned in the vice-chancellor's court for certain libels against the late Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon; he is fined, banished from the university until he recants, and the offending pages are burned.
- Joseph Addison addresses an early poem to John Dryden.
- John Banks' historical play The Innocent Usurper, about Lady Jane Grey, is banned from the stage.
[edit] New books
- John Dennis - The Impartial Critick
- John Dryden - A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire
- John Evelyn - The Compleat Gard'ner
- August Hermann Francke - Manuductio ad lectionem Scripturae Sacrae
- Robert Gould - The Corruption of the Times by Money
- John Locke - Some Thoughts Concerning Education
- William Penn - Some Fruits of Solitude
- Thomas Rymer - A Short View of Tragedy
- Catherine Trotter (or Catherine Trotter Cockburn) - Olinda's Adventures; or, The Amours of a Young Lady
- Samuel Wesley - The Life of Our Blessed Lord
- Sir Thomas Urquhart & Peter Anthony Motteux - the first complete English translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel
[edit] New Drama
- John Bancroft - Henry the Second, King of England; With the death of Rosamond
- William Congreve - The Old Bachelor
- - The Double Dealer
- Thomas D'Urfey - The Richmond Heiress, or A Woman Once in the Right
- Henry Higden - The Wary Widow, or Sir Noisy Parrot
- George Powell - A Very Good Wife (adapted from Richard Brome's The City Wit and The Court Beggar)
- Elkanah Settle - The New Athenian Comedy published
- Thomas Southerne - The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather Than Fail
[edit] Poetry
- John Dryden - Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (anthology)
[edit] Births
- Father Fray Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A., Spanish Augustinian historical writer, wrote Conquistas de las Islas Philipinas (d. 1746)
- Eliza Haywood - dramatist, journalist, and novelist.
- George Lillo - dramatist.
[edit] Deaths
- April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French memoirist (born 1618)
- May 25 - Madame de La Fayette, French writer (born 1634)
- August - Charles Blount, deist author.
