1684 in literature

1684 in literature

The year 1684 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* John Banks' historical play "The Island Queens, or the Death of Mary Queen of Scotland" is banned from the stage; it is produced as "The Albion Queens" twenty years later (1704).
* Pierre Bayle begins his journal of literary criticism, "Nouvelles de la république des lettres".
*English novelist and dramatist Mary Griffith marries merchant George Pix.

New books

Fiction

*Aphra Behn - "Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister"
*Ihara Saikaku - "The Great Mirror of Beauties"

Non-fiction

*Jakob Abbadie - "Traite de la verite de la religion chretienne"
*Edward Phillips - "Enchiridion liguae latinae"
*Christopher Sandius - "Bibliotheca antitrinitariorum"
*George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax - "The Character of a Trimmer"

Plays

* John Horne - "Fortune's Task, or the Fickle Fair One"
* John Lacy - "Sir Hercules Buffoon"
* Simon Neale - "The Mistaken Beauty" (adapted from Corneille)
* Edward Ravenscroft - "Dame Dobson, or the Cunning Woman"
* Thomas Southerne - "The Disappointment, or the Mother of Fashion"

Poetry

*Aphra Behn - "Poems upon Several Occasions"

Births

* December 3 - Ludvig Holberg (died 1754)

Deaths

*April 1 - Roger Williams, theologian (born 1603)
*October 1 - Pierre Corneille, dramatist (born 1606)
*December 7 - John Oldham, poet (born 1653)


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