1696 in literature

1696 in literature

The year 1696 in literature involved some significant events.

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 targeting 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).

New books

* John Aubrey - "Miscellanies"
* Philip Ayres - "The Revengeful Mistress"
* Aphra Behn - "The Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn" (posthumous)
* Charles Leslie - "The Snake in the Grass"
* Mary Pix - "The Inhumane Cardinal; or, Innocence Betray'd" (novel)
* John Suckling - "The Works of Sir John Suckling"
* John Tillotson - "The Works of John Tillotson"

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")

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"

Non-fiction

* Richard Baxter - "Reliquiae Baxterianae" (posthumous)
* Gerard Croese - "The General History of the Quakers" (translation
*"An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex" (anonymous)
* Mary Delarivière Manley - "Letters Written by Mrs. Manley"
* William Penn - "Primitive Christianity Revived in the Faith and Practice of the People called Quakers"
* John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby - "The Character of Charles II, King of England"
* John Toland - "Christianity Not Mysterious"
* William Whiston - "A New Theory of the Earth"

Births

*July 14 - William Oldys, antiquarian and bibliographer (died 1761)
*October 13 - John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, memoirist (died 1743)
*"date unknown" - Matthew Green, poet (died 1737)
*Henry Home, Lord Kame

Deaths

* May 10 - Jean de La Bruyère, French essayist (born 1645)
* John Bancroft


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