1671 in literature

1671 in literature

The year 1671 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*Nell Gwyn retires from the stage.
*On November 9, the Duke's Company open their new venue, the Dorset Garden Theatre.

New books

*Edward Bagshaw (attr.) - "The Life and Death of Mr Vavasor Powell"
* John Josselyn - "New England's Rarities, discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country" (London)
*Gottfried Leibniz - "Hypothesis Physica Nova (`New Physical Hypothesis')"
*Arnoldus Montanus - "De nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld of Beschryving van America (The Unknown New World or Description of the Continent America)"
*Isaac Newton - "Method of Fluxions"
*Marie-Catherine de Villedieu - "Les Amours des Grands Hommes"

New drama

*Aphra Behn - "The Amorous Prince" (adapted from Robert Davenport's "The City Nightcap")
*Pierre Corneille - "Tite et Bérénice"
*John Crowne - "Juliana, or the Princess of Poland"
*John Dryden - "The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery"
*Edward Howard - "The Six Days' Adventure, or the New Utopia"
*Edward Ravenscroft - "Mamamouchi"
*Elkanah Settle - "Cambyses"
*George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham & others - "The Rehearsal"
*William Wycherley - "Love in a Wood"

Poetry

*John Milton - "Samson Agonistes"

Births

* April 6 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, poet (born 1741)
* June 11 - Colley Cibber (born 1757)

Deaths

* July 14 - Méric Casaubon, classical scholar (born 1599)
* December 28 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, critic (born 1611)


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