1695 in literature

1695 in literature

The year 1695 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* Antoine Lemaistre and his brother Louis Isaac Lemaistre complete their translation of the Bible into the French language (the "Port-Royal version").
* After twelve years of de facto theatrical monopoly in London, the senior actors of the mismanaged United Company break away to form a rival cooperative company, led by Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle. The new company gets off to a brilliant start with the première of William Congreve's comedy "Love for Love".
*The English House of Commons and the House of Lords are unable to agree on another renewal of the often-renewed Printing Act of 1662; London printers are freed from decades of legal restrictions.

New books

* Joseph Addison - "A Poem to His Majesty"
* Richard Blackmore - "Prince Arthur"
* Charles Blount - "Miscellaneous Works" (ed. Charles Gildon)
* Gilbert Burnet - "An Essay on the Memory of the Late Queen" (see 1694 in literature, as many memorials were written to Mary II of England)
* Colley Cibber - "A Poem on the Death of our Late Sovereign Lady, Queen Mary"
* Jeremy Collier - "Miscellanies upon Moral Subjects: The second part"
* William Congreve - "The Mourning Muse of Alexas: A pastoral" (on Mary II)
* John Dennis - "The Court of Death"
* John Dryden - "De Arte Graphica" (trans. of Charles-Alphonse du Fresnoy)
* Laurence Echard - "The Roman History" (vol. I)
* William Laud - "The History of the Troubles and Tryal of William Laud"
* John Locke - "Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money"
** - "The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures"
** - "A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity" (reply to John Edwards)
* John Milton - "The Poetical Works of Mr John Milton" (ed. Patrick Hume)
* John Norris - "Letters Concerning the Love of God" (letters to Mary Astell)
* Sir William Petty - "Quantulumcunque Concerning Money" (published posthumously)
* John Phillips - "A Reflection on Our Modern Poetry"
* Matthew Prior - "An English Ballad: In answer to Mr Despreaux's Pindarique ode on the taking of Namure"
* Robert South - "Tritheism" (vs. William Sherlock)
* Richard Steele - "The Procession: A poem on Her Majesties funeral"
* Sir William Temple - "An Introduction to the History of England"
* Ned Ward - "Female Policy Detected; or, The Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open"

New drama

* Anonymous ("a Young Lady") - "She Ventures and He Wins"
* John Banks - "Cyrus the Great, or The Tragedy of Love"
* Catherine Trotter Cockburn - "Agnes de Castro"
* William Congreve - "Love for Love"
* Robert Gould - "The Rival Sisters"
* George Granville - "The She-Gallants"
* Charles Hopkins - "Pyrrhus King of Epirus"
* Peter Anthony Motteux - "The Loves of Mars and Venus"
* George Powell - "Bonduca, or the British Heroine"
* Edward Ravenscroft - "The Canterbury Guests; or, A Bargain Broken"
* Elkanah Settle - "Philaster; or, Love Lies A-Bleeding" (adapted from Fletcher's "
* Philaster")
* Thomas Scott - "The Mock Marriage"

Births

* April 8 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (died 1723)

Deaths

* February - Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple, letter writer (born 1627)
* April 13 - Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (born 1621)
* April 28 - Henry Vaughan, poet (born 1622)
* August 12 - Huang Zongxi, political theorist (born 1610)
* November 21 - Henry Purcell, composer (born 1659)
* November 28 - Anthony Wood, antiquarian (born 1632)
* "date unknown" - Sir William Killigrew, playwright (born 1606)


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