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1671 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1671.

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Events

  • February – Nell Gwyn retires from the stage and moves into a brick townhouse at 79 Pall Mall, London.
  • November 9 – The Duke's Company open their new venue, the Dorset Garden Theatre.
  • Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières is awarded the first prize given for poetry by the Académie française.
  • Publication of Philosophus Autodidactus, the first Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's 12th century tale Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, prepared by Edward Pococke before 1660.

    • Prose

  • Edward Bagshaw (attr.) – The Life and Death of Mr Vavasor Powell
  • Johann Ferdinand Hertodt – Crocologia
  • 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
  • Jane Sharp – The Midwives Book: or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered
  • Marie-Catherine de Villedieu – Les Amours des Grands Hommes

    • Children

  • James Janeway – A Token for Children (two parts)

    • 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
  • Pedro Calderon de la Barca – El santo rey don Fernando

    • Poetry

  • John Milton – Samson Agonistes

    • Births

  • April 6 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French dramatist and poet (died 1741)
  • June 11 – Colley Cibber, English playwright and Poet Laureate (died 1757)
  • September 7 – Antoine Danchet, French dramatist and poet (died 1748)
  • Unknown date – Gustaf Adlerfelt, Swedish historian (died 1709)

    • Deaths

  • January 1 – Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, French historian and cleric (born 1606)
  • January 22 – Odorico Raynaldi, Italian historian (born 1595)
  • February 22 – Adam Olearius, German librarian and scholar (born 1603)
  • July 14 – Méric Casaubon, Swiss-born English classicist (born 1599)
  • September 28 – Jean de Montigny, French philosopher and poet (born 1636)
  • December 28 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classicist (born 1611)

    • References

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