1691 in literature

1691 in literature

The year 1691 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* The first of eight volumes of "Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy Who Lived Five and Forty Years Undiscover'd at Paris" is published; subsequent volumes are issued through 1694. The project is a hoax: Volume 1 is actually the work of Italian writer Giovanni Paolo Marana, with Englishmen Roger Manley, Robert Midgeley, and William Bradshaw contributing to later volumes.

New books

*Gerard Langbaine - "An Account of the English Dramatic Poets"
*Sir Dudley North - "Discourses upon Trade"
* "The Kingdom of Ireland"

New drama

*Anonymous - "The Braggadocio, or Bawd Turn'd Puritan"
*John Bancroft - "Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March"
*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"
*William Mountfort - "Greenwich Park"
*Jean Racine - "Athalie"
*Thomas Southerne - "The Wives' Excuse, or Cuckolds Make Themselves"
*Cave Underhill - "Win Her and Take Her"
*John Wilson - "Belphegor, or the Marriage of the Devil" published

Births

*February 27 - Edward Cave, printer and publisher (died 1754)
*April 9 - Johann Matthias Gesner, classical commentator (died 1761)
*"date unknown" - John Leland, theologian (died 1766)

Deaths

* July 30 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and critic (born 1639)
* October 10 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (born 1613)
* December 8 - Richard Baxter, religious leader and writer (born 1615)
*"date unknown" - John Flavel, religious writer (born 1627)
*"probable" - Samuel Pordage, poet


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