1690 in literature

1690 in literature

The year 1690 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* Colley Cibber becomes an actor with the Drury Lane company.
*On December 10, playwright Henry Nevil Payne is tortured for his role in the "Montgomery Plot" to restore James II to the throne — the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain.

New books

*Nicholas Barbon - "A Discourse of Trade.
*Pierre Bayle (attr.) - "Avis important aux refugies".
*Sir Thomas Browne - "A Letter to a Friend" (published posthumously).
*John Locke - "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding".
*Samuel Pepys - "Memoires of the Navy".

New drama

*John Bancroft - "King Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March"
*Aphra Behn - "The Widow Ranter" (published posthumously)
*Thomas Betterton - "The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian" (adapted from Fletcher and Massinger's "The Prophetess"; with music by Henry Purcell)
*Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - "Mr. Anthony" published
*John Crowne - "The English Friar, or the Town Sparks"
*George Powell - "Alphonso, King of Naples"
** - "The Treacherous Brothers"
*Elkanah Settle - "Distress'd Innocence, or The Princess of Persia"
*Thomas Shadwell - "The Scourers"
*Thomas Southerne - "Sir Anthony Love"
*"W. C." - "The Rape Reveng'd, or the Spanish Revolution" (adapted from William Rowley's "All's Lost by Lust")

Poetry

*John Dryden - "Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias"
**"Don Sebastian"

Births

*February 3 - Richard Rawlinson, collector of manuscripts and curiosities (died 1755)
*September 12 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (died 1775)

Deaths

*May 12 - John Rushworth, author of "Historical Collections" (born c.1612)
*October 3 - Robert Barclay, Quaker writer (born c.1648)
*"date unknown" - Franciscus Plante, poet (born 1613)


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