1696 in literature
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The year 1696 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Vincenzo da Filicaja becomes governor of Volterra.
- The Kit-Kat Club is founded in London.
- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane stages The Female Wits, an anti-feminist satire targetting Mary Pix, Mary Delarivière Manley, and Catherine Trotter, three significant women dramatists of the era. The play is a hit, and runs for three nights straight (unusual in the repertory system of the day).
[edit] New books
- Anonymous - An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex
- John Aubrey - Miscellanies
- Philip Ayres - The Revengeful Mistress
- Richard Baxter - Reliquiae Baxterianae (posthumous)
- Aphra Behn - The Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn (posthumous)
- Gerard Croese - The General History of the Quakers (translation)
- Charles Leslie - The Snake in the Grass
- Mary Delarivière Manley - Letters Written by Mrs. Manley
- William Penn - Primitive Christianity Revived in the Faith and Practice of the People called Quakers
- Mary Pix - The Inhumane Cardinal; or, Innocence Betray'd (novel)
- John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham - The Character of Charles II, King of England
- John Suckling - The Works of Sir John Suckling
- John Tillotson - The Works of John Tillotson
- John Toland - Christianity Not Mysterious
- William Whiston - A New Theory of the Earth
[edit] New drama
- Anonymous - Bonduca, or The British Heroine (adapted from Fletcher's Bonduca)
- Anonymous - The Cornish Comedy
- Anonymous ("W. M.") - The Female Wits, or the Triumverate of Poets at Rehearsal
- John Banks - Cyrus the Great, or The Tragedy of Love
- Aphra Behn - The Younger Brother, or The Amorous Jilt
- Colley Cibber - Love's Last Shift, or Virtue Rewarded
- Thomas Doggett - The Country Wake
- Thomas D'Urfey - The Comical History of Don Quixote. The Third Part
- George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne - The She-Gallants
- Joseph Harris - The City Bride; or, The Merry Cuckold (adapted from A Cure for a Cuckold)
- Charles Hopkins - Neglected Virtue; or, The Unhappy Conquerour
- Mary Delarivière Manley - The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband
- The Royal Mischief
- Peter Anthony Motteux - Love's a Jest
- - She Ventures and He Wins
- Mary Pix - The Spanish Wives
- Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperour of the Turks
- Edward Ravenscroft - The Anatomist, or the Sham Doctor
- Thomas Southerne - Oroonoko (adapted from Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko)
- John Vanbrugh - The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger (a sequel to Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift)
[edit] Poetry
- Nicholas Brady & Nahum Tate - A New Version of the Psalms of David
- John Dryden - An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell (died 1695)
- John Oldmixon - Poems on Several Occasions
- Elizabeth Rowe - Poems on Several Occasions
- Nahum Tate - Miscellanea Sacra; or, Poems on Divine & Moral Subjects
[edit] Births
- July 14 - William Oldys, antiquarian and bibliographer (died 1761)
- October 13 - Lord Hervey, memoirist (died 1743)
- date unknown - Matthew Green, poet (died 1737)
- Henry Home, Lord Kame
[edit] Deaths
- May 10 - Jean de La Bruyère, French essayist (born 1645)
- John Bancroft
