1674 in literature

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The year 1674 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Isaac de Benserade is elected to the French Academy, along with Pierre Daniel Huet.
Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton visit Rome together.
The new Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opens in March. Designed by Christopher Wren, it replaces the original theatre that burned down in 1672.
Schlosstheater Celle founded; by the 21st century it will be the oldest surviving theatre in Germany.
The derivative nature of Restoration drama is richly displayed when the Duke's Company produces Thomas Shadwell's "operatic" re-adaptation of Dryden and Davenant's 1667 adaptation of The Tempest. In response, their rivals at the King's Company stage The Mock Tempest, or the Enchanted Castle by Thomas Duffet.

Samuel Chappuzeau - Le Théâtre François
John Evelyn - Navigation and Commerce
John Josselyn - An Account of the Voyages to New England, London: Printed for Giles Widdows
Thomas Ken - Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of Winchester College
Anthony Wood - Historia et antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis

Anonymous (and John Dryden?) - The Mistaken Husband
William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle - The Triumphant Widow
Pierre Corneille - Suréna
John Crowne - Andromache
Sir William Davenant - Macbeth, a "dramatic opera" adapted from Shakespeare's play, is published
Thomas Duffet (attributed to) - The Amorous Old Woman
- The Empress of Morocco: a Farce
- The Mock Tempest
Nathaniel Lee - The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome
Jean Racine - Iphigénie

January 15 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, poet and dramatist (died 1762)
June 20 - Nicholas Rowe (dramatist) (died 1718)
October - Thomas Ruddiman, classical scholar (died 1757)
October 6 - Nicolas-Hubert de Mongault, French ecclesiastic and writer (died 1746)
?December - Christmas Samuel, Independent minister and writer (died 1764)

March 7 - Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, novelist (born 1602)
June 14 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville, poet and novelist (born 1600)
August 13 - Lucidor, burlesque poet (born 1638) (killed in a duel)
September 27
- Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, poet and translator (born 1589)
- Thomas Traherne, poet and religious writer (born c. 1636)
October - Robert Herrick, poet (born 1591)
November 8 - John Milton, poet, prose writer, polemicist and civil servant (born 1608)
December 9 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (born 1609)
date unknown - Miguel Sánchez, Novohispano priest, writer and theologian (born 1594)

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