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1676 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1676.

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Events

  • March 2 – First performance of George Etherege's play The Man of Mode in London.
  • May 22 – Samuel Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House.
  • December 11 – First performance of William Wycherley's play The Plain Dealer in London.
  • German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz takes up a post as librarian to the Duke of Brunswick.

    • Prose

  • 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
  • Thomas Tomkinson – Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism.
  • Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler, 5th edition

    • 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 – 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 Libertine
  • The Virtuoso
  • William Wycherley – The Plain Dealer
  • Flor de entremeses, bailes y loas
  • Agustín Moreto
  • El lindo don Diego
  • No puede ser...
  • El parecido en la corte
  • Verdadera III parte de comedias

    • Births

  • June 21 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (died 1729)
  • July 4 – José de Cañizares, Spanish dramatist (died 1750)
  • October 8 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar and monk (died 1764)
  • Unknown dates
  • Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (died 1752)
  • Samuel Bownas, English Quaker religious writer (died 1753)

    • Deaths

  • March 22 – Lady Anne Clifford, English patron and correspondent (born 1590)
  • July 25 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer and cleric (born 1604)
  • August 17 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (born 1621)
  • September 2 – Edward Worsley, English religious writer (born 1605)
  • October 25 – Justus Georg Schottel, German grammarian (born 1612)
  • November 1 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (born 1589)
  • December 18 – Edward Benlowes, English poet (born 1603)
  • December 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English polymath (born 1592)

    • References

    1676 in literature Wikipedia
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