1676 in literature

The year 1676 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• March 2 - First performance of George Etherege's play The Man of Mode in London.^[1]
• May 22 - Samuel Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House.^[2]
• December 11 - First performance of William Wycherley's play The Plain Dealer in London.^[1]
• German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz takes up a post as librarian to the Duke of Brunswick.

New books

• Robert Barclay - Theses Theologiae
• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
• Charles Cotton - Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler)
• Gabriel de Foigney - The Adventures of James Sadeur and the Discovery of Australia
• Thomas Tomkinson - Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism.
• Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler, 5th edition

New drama

• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (?) - Zoroastres
• Thomas Duffet - Beauty's Triumph (masque)
• Thomas d'Urfey
  • The Fool Turned Critic
  • Madame Fickle
• George Etherege - The Man of Mode
• Nathaniel Lee - Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar
• Thomas Otway - Don Carlos
• Edward Ravenscroft - The Wrangling Lovers
• Thomas Rawlins - Tom Essence, or the Modish Wife
• Elkanah Settle
  • The Conquest of China by the Tartars
  • Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa (adapted from a story by Madeleine de Scudéry)
• Thomas Shadwell
  • The Libertine
  • The Virtuoso
• William Wycherley - The Plain Dealer
• Flor de entremeses, bailes y loas
• Agustín Moreto
  • El lindo don Diego
  • No puede ser...
  • El parecido en la corte
  • Verdadera III parte de comedias

Births

• June 21 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (died 1729)
• July 4 – José de Cañizares, Spanish dramatist (died 1750)
• October 8 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar and monk (died 1764)
• Unknown date – Samuel Bownas, English Quaker religious writer (died 1753)

Deaths

• March 22 – Lady Anne Clifford, English patron and correspondent (born 1590)
• July 25 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer and cleric (born 1604)
• August 17 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (born 1621)
• September 2 – Edward Worsley, English religious writer (born 1605)
• October 25 – Justus Georg Schottel, German grammarian (born 1612)
• November 1 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (born 1589)
• December 18 – Edward Benlowes, English poet (born 1603)
• December 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English polymath (born 1592)

References