1676 in literature

1676 in literature

The year 1676 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*Samuel Pepys becomes Master of Trinity House.

New books

*Robert Barclay - "Theses Theologiae"
*Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - "English-Adventures by a Person of Honor"
*Charles Cotton - "Cotton's Angler" (a continuation of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler")
*Gabriel de Foigney - "The Adventures of James Sadeur and the Discovery of Australia"
*Baruch Spinoza - "Ethics"
*Izaak Walton - "The Compleat Angler", 5th edition

New drama

*Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (?) - "Zoroastres"
*Thomas Duffet - "Beauty's Triumph" (masque)
*Thomas d'Urfey - "The Fool Turned Critic"
** - "Madame Fickle"
*George Etherege - "The Man of Mode"
*Nathaniel Lee - "Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar"
*Thomas Otway - "Don Carlos"
*Edward Ravenscroft - "The Wrangling Lovers"
*Thomas Rawlins the younger - "Tom Essence, or the Modish Wife"
*Elkanah Settle - "The Conquest of China by the Tartars"
** - "Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa" (adapted from a story by Madeleine de Scudéry)
*Thomas Shadwell - "The Virtuoso"
*William Wycherley - "The Plain Dealer"

Births

*June 21 - Anthony Collins, philosopher (died 1729)
*July 4 - José de Cañizares, dramatist (died 1750)
*"date unknown"
**Samuel Bownas, Quaker writer
**Alexander Selkirk, the original "Robinson Crusoe" (died 1721)

Deaths

* July 25 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac (born 1604)
*August 17 - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, novelist (born 1621)
*October 25 - Justus Georg Schottel, grammarian (born 1612)
*November 1 - Gisbertus Voetius, theologian (born 1589)
*December 18 - Edward Benlowes, poet (born 1603)


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