1691 in literature
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The year 1691 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.
New books
- Gerard Langbaine – An Account of the English Dramatic Poets
- Sir Dudley North – Discourses upon Trade
- The Kingdom of Ireland
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz
New drama
- Anonymous – The Braggadocio, or Bawd Turn'd Puritan
- John Bancroft – Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March
- David-Augustin de Brueys & Jean Palaprat – Le Muet
- 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[1]
- William Mountfort – Greenwich Park
- Jean Racine – Athalie
- Thomas Southerne – The Wives' Excuse, or Cuckolds Make Themselves
- Cave Underhill – Win Her and Take Her[2]
- John Wilson – Belphegor, or the Marriage of the Devil published
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca - Céfalo y Pocris
Births
- February 3 – George Lillo, English dramatist and actor (died 1739)
- February 27 – Edward Cave, English printer and publisher (died 1754)
- April 9 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classicist (died 1761)
- Unknown date – John Leland, English theologian (died 1766)
Deaths
- July 30 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and critic (born 1639)
- October 8 – Thomas Barlow, English religious writer and bishop (born 1609)
- October 10 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (born 1613)
- December 8 – Richard Baxter, English religious leader and writer (born 1615)
- Unknown date – John Flavel, English religious writer (born 1627)
- Probable year of death – Samuel Pordage, poet and cleric (born 1633)