1672 in literature

1672 in literature

The year 1672 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* In London, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is destroyed by fire. The King's Company moves into the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which their rivals the Duke's Company left the previous year.
* During the 1672–73 theatre season, Thomas Killigrew mounts another all-female production of his "The Parson's Wedding" with the King's Company. (The first occurred in 1664.) Beaumont and Fletcher's "Philaster" and Dryden's "The Maiden Queen" were also staged with all-women casts in this time; Dryden wrote new Prologues for the productions.

New books

*Richard Cumberland - "De legibus naturae (On natural laws)"
*Nathaniel Hodges - "Loimologia"
*John Milton - "Art of Logic"
*Pierre Nicole - "A Discourse Against Plays and Romances"

New drama

*Anonymous - "Emilia" (adapted from the "Costanza di Rosamondo" of Aurelio Aureli)
*Anonymous - "The Illustrious Slaves"
*John Dryden - "The Assignation"
** - "Marriage A-la-Mode"
*John Lacy - "The Old Troop" published
*Molière - "Les femmes savantes"
*Henry Nevil Payne - "The Morning Ramble"
*Jean Racine - "Bajazet"
*Thomas Shadwell - "Epsom Wells"
** - "The Miser"
*George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - "The Rehearsal" published

Births

* January 18 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte (died 1731)
* May 1 - Joseph Addison (died 1719)
* August 2 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (died 1733)

Deaths

* September 12 - Tanneguy Lefebvre (born 1615)
* September 16 - Anne Bradstreet, first American female author to be published (born c.1612)
* December 7 - Richard Bellingham, later a character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" (born 1592)


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