1696 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1696.
Events
- January – Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.[1]
- March 5 – William Penn marries his second wife, Hannah Callowhill.
- September – The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, stages The Female Wits, an anti-feminist satire targeting Mary Pix, Delarivier Manley and Catherine Trotter, the 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).[2]
- November 21 – John Vanbrugh's first play, the comedy The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger, a sequel to Love's Last Shift, is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with Cibber in the cast.[3]
- unknown date
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
- January 3 – Mary Mollineux, English Quaker poet (born c.1651)
- March 14 – Jean Domat, French jurist (born 1625)[14]
- March 18 – Bonaventura Baron, Irish theologian, philosopher and writer in Latin (born 1610)
- April 17 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French author (born 1626)[15]
- April 27 – Simon Foucher, French polemic philosopher (born 1644)
- May 10 – Jean de La Bruyère, French essayist (born 1645)[16]
- June 9 – Antoine Varillas, French historian (born 1626)[17]
- August 9 – Wacław Potocki, Polish nobleman (Szlachta), moralist, Baroque poet and writer (born 1621)
- September 8 – Henry Birkhead, English academic, lawyer, Latin poet and founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry (born 1617)
- November 26 – Gregório de Matos, Brazilian Baroque poet (born 1636)
- December 31 – Samuel Annesley, English Puritan minister noted for his sermons (born c.1620)[18]
- Unknown dates
Notes and References
- Book: Philip H. Highfill. Kalman A. Burnim. Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Cabanel to Cory. 1975. SIU Press. 978-0-8093-0692-3. 216.
- Book: Richard Kozar. William J. Burling. Summer Theatre in London, 1661-1820, and the Rise of the Haymarket Theatre. 2000. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. 978-0-8386-3811-8. 43.
- Book: Palmer, Alan . Palmer . Veronica . 1992 . The Chronology of British History . Century Ltd . London . 200–201 . 0-7126-5616-2.
- Book: Mark A. Schneider. Culture and Enchantment. 15 December 1993. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-73927-4. 1. en.
- Book: Thomas DOGGET. The Country Wake: a comedy. In five acts and in prose. 1696.
- Book: George Watson. Ian R. Willison. J. D. Pickles. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800. 2 July 1971. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-07934-1. 765–.
- Book: She Ventures, and He Wins. A comedy ... . 1696. For Hen. Rhodes.
- Book: George Watson. Ian R. Willison. J. D. Pickles. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800. 2 July 1971. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-07934-1. 797–.
- Book: John Dryden. The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV: Plays: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon. 29 September 1976. University of California Press. 978-0-520-02129-7. 330.
- Book: W.H.G. Armytage. Heavens Below: Utopian Experiments in England, 1560-1960. 15 October 2013. Routledge. 978-1-134-52943-8. 30.
- Book: William Penn. Primitive Christianity Revived in the Faith and Practice of the People Called Quakers. 1857. Miller & Burlock. 3.
- Book: Berman, David . Honderich, Ted . The Oxford Companion to Philosophy . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 1995 . 877 . 0-19-866132-0 . registration .
- Book: Katharina M. Wilson. Paul Schlueter. June Schlueter. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. 16 December 2013. Routledge. 978-1-135-61670-0. 122.
- Book: Holthöfer, Ernst. 180. Domat, Jean. Michael Stolleis. Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. 2nd. 2001. Beck. München. de. 3-406-45957-9.
- Book: Tilley, Arthur Augustus. Madame de Sévigné: Some Aspects of Her Life and Character. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2016. 154. 978-1-31662-004-5.
- Book: Jean de La Bruyère. Characters. 1970. Penguin Books. 978-0-14-044221-2. 13. en.
- Book: Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. C. Knight. 1843. 144.
- John A Newton ‘ Samuel Annesley 1620-1696)’ Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society v.XLV 1985-6 pp 29-45 p.37