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Overview of the events of 1696 in literature
Overview of the events of 1696 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1696 .
January – Colley Cibber 's play Love's Last Shift is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.[1]
March 5 – William Penn marries his second wife, Hannah Callowhill.[2]
September – The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, stages The Female Wits , an anti-feminist satire targeting Mary Pix , Delarivier Manley and Catherine Trotter , the three significant women dramatists of the era. The play is a hit, and runs for three nights straight (unusual in the repertory system of the day).[3]
November 21 – John Vanbrugh 's first play, the comedy The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger , a sequel to Love's Last Shift , is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with Cibber in the cast.[4]
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January 3 – Mary Mollineux , English Quaker poet (born c.1651 )
March 14 – Jean Domat , French jurist (born 1625 )[14]
March 18 – Bonaventura Baron , Irish theologian, philosopher and writer in Latin (born 1610 )
April 17 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal , French author (born 1626 )[15]
April 27 – Simon Foucher , French polemic philosopher (born 1644 )
May 10 – Jean de La Bruyère , French essayist (born 1645 )[16]
June 9 – Antoine Varillas , French historian (born 1626 )[17]
August 9 – Wacław Potocki , Polish nobleman (Szlachta ), moralist, Baroque poet and writer (born 1621 )
September 8 – Henry Birkhead , English academic, lawyer, Latin poet and founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry (born 1617 )
November 26 – Gregório de Matos , Brazilian Baroque poet (born 1636 )
December 31 – Samuel Annesley , English Puritan minister noted for his sermons (born c.1620)[18]
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References [ edit ]
^ a b Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1975). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Cabanel to Cory . SIU Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-8093-0692-3 .
^ a b William Penn (1857). Primitive Christianity Revived in the Faith and Practice of the People Called Quakers . Miller & Burlock. p. 3.
^ Richard Kozar; William J. Burling (2000). Summer Theatre in London, 1661-1820, and the Rise of the Haymarket Theatre . Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-8386-3811-8 .
^ a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 200–201. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 .
^ Mark A. Schneider (15 December 1993). Culture and Enchantment . University of Chicago Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-226-73927-4 .
^ Thomas DOGGET (1696). The Country Wake: a comedy. In five acts and in prose .
^ a b George Watson; Ian R. Willison; J. D. Pickles (2 July 1971). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 . Cambridge University Press. pp. 765–. ISBN 978-0-521-07934-1 .
^ She Ventures, and He Wins. A comedy ... For Hen. Rhodes. 1696.
^ George Watson; Ian R. Willison; J. D. Pickles (2 July 1971). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 . Cambridge University Press. pp. 797–. ISBN 978-0-521-07934-1 .
^ John Dryden (29 September 1976). The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV: Plays: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon . University of California Press. p. 330. ISBN 978-0-520-02129-7 .
^ W.H.G. Armytage (15 October 2013). Heavens Below: Utopian Experiments in England, 1560-1960 . Routledge. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-134-52943-8 .
^ Berman, David (1995). Honderich, Ted (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy . Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 877 . ISBN 0-19-866132-0 .
^ Katharina M. Wilson; Paul Schlueter; June Schlueter (16 December 2013). Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia . Routledge. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-135-61670-0 .
^ Holthöfer, Ernst (2001). "Domat, Jean". In Michael Stolleis (ed.). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German) (2nd ed.). München: Beck. p. 180. ISBN 3-406-45957-9 .
^ Tilley, Arthur Augustus (2016). Madame de Sévigné: Some Aspects of Her Life and Character . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-31662-004-5 .
^ Jean de La Bruyère (1970). Characters . Penguin Books. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-14-044221-2 .
^ Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . C. Knight. 1843. p. 144.
^ John A Newton ‘ Samuel Annesley 1620-1696)’ Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society v.XLV 1985-6 pp 29-45 p.37