1693 in literature

1693 in literature

The year 1693 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* July 29 - Anthony Wood is condemned in the vice-chancellor's court for certain libels against the late Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon; he is fined, banished from the university until he recants, and the offending pages are burned.
* Joseph Addison addresses an early poem to John Dryden.
* John Banks' historical play "The Innocent Usurper", about Lady Jane Grey, is banned from the stage.

New books

* John Dennis - "The Impartial Critick"
* John Dryden - "A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire"
* John Evelyn - "The Compleat Gard'ner"
* August Hermann Francke - "Manuductio ad lectionem Scripturae Sacrae"
* Robert Gould - "The Corruption of the Times by Money"
* John Locke - "Some Thoughts Concerning Education"
* William Penn - "Some Fruits of Solitude"
* Thomas Rymer - "A Short View of Tragedy"
* Catherine Trotter (or Catherine Trotter Cockburn) - "Olinda's Adventures; or, The Amours of a Young Lady"
* Samuel Wesley - "The Life of Our Blessed Lord"
* Sir Thomas Urquhart & Peter Anthony Motteux - the first complete English translation of Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel"

New Drama

* John Bancroft - "Henry the Second, King of England; With the death of Rosamond"
* William Congreve - "The Old Bachelor"
** - "The Double Dealer"
* Thomas D'Urfey - "The Richmond Heiress, or A Woman Once in the Right"
* Henry Higden - "The Wary Widow, or Sir Noisy Parrot"
* George Powell - "A Very Good Wife" (adapted from Richard Brome's "The City Wit" and "The Court Beggar")
* Elkanah Settle - "The New Athenian Comedy" published
* Thomas Southerne - "The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather Than Fail"

Poetry

* John Dryden - "Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems" (anthology)

Births

* Father Fray Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A., Spanish Augustinian historical writer, wrote "Conquistas de las Islas Philipinas" (d. 1746)
*Eliza Haywood - dramatist, journalist, and novelist.
*George Lillo - dramatist.

Deaths

* April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French memoirist (born 1618)
* May 25 - Madame de La Fayette, French writer (born 1634)
* August - Charles Blount, deist author.


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