1664 in literature

1664 in literature

The year 1664 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* Sir William Davenant's "dramatic opera" "Macbeth", adapted from Shakespeare's play, premiers on November 5.
*Thomas Killigrew and the King's Company stage Killigrew's "The Parson's Wedding" with an all-female cast. (Killigrew attempts a similar all-female production of his play "Thomaso", though the project is never realized.)

New books

*Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle - "Sociable Letters"
*Charles Cotton - "The Compleat Gamester"
*René Descartes - "Traité de l'homme et de la formation du foetus"
*John Evelyn - "Sylva, or Discourse on Forest Trees"
*Richard Flecknoe - "A Discourse of the English Stage"
*John Heydon - "Psonthonpanchia"
** "Theomagia", Part 3
*Lucy Hutchinson - "Memoirs Of The Life Of Colonel Hutchinson"
*Thomas Killigrew - collected plays
*William Killigrew - three plays in one folio volume
*William Shakespeare - the second impression of the Third Folio, which added seven plays to the thirty-six of the First Folio and the Second: "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" and six works from the Shakespeare Apocrypha
*Jeremy Taylor - "Dissuasive from Popery"
*Izaak Walton - "The Compleat Angler", 3rd edition

New drama

*Lodowick Carlell - "Heraclius, Emperor of the East" published (adapted from Corneille's "Heraclius")
*Pierre Corneille - "Othon"
*Sir William Davenant - "The Rivals" (an adaptation of "The Two Noble Kinsmen")
*John Dryden - "The Rival Ladies"
*John Dryden and Sir Robert Howard - "The Indian Queen"
*George Etherege - "The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub"
*Edward Howard - "The Usurper"
*John Lacy - "The Old Troop"
*Molière - "Tartuffe"
*Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - "Henry V"
*Thomas Porter - "The Carnival"
*Jean Racine - "La Thébaide"
*Joost van den Vondel - "Adam in Ballingschap"
*John Wilson - "Andronicus Comnenius"
** - "The Projectors"

Poetry

*Samuel Butler - "Hudibras" Part 2
*Katherine Philips - "Poems"

Births

* ?January 24 - Sir John Vanbrugh (died 1726)
* July 21 - Matthew Prior (died 1721)
*November 9 - Henry Wharton (died 1695)
* "probable" - William Mountfort (died 1692)

Deaths

* January 20 - Isaac Ambrose (born 1604)
* July 16 - Andreas Gryphius (born 1616)
* November 18 - Nikola Zrinski (born 1620)
* "date unknown" - Bihari (born 1600)


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