April 15 - Edward Howard's play The Change of Crowns is first performed, in London. Actor John Lacy improvises a few lines about influence-peddling at court, angering King Charles II, a member of the audience (as is Samuel Pepys). The theatre is closed for a time and Lacy jailed.
April 27 – The blind, impoverished 58-year-old John Milton seals a contract (one of the first detailed contracts between author and printer known in England)[5] for publication of Paradise Lost with London printer Samuel Simmons for an initial payment of £5.[6][7][8] The first edition is published in October[7] and sells out in eighteen months.[9]
July – English scholar and poet Edmund Castell is imprisoned for debt.
July 28 – For the second time in his life, playwright Thomas Porter mortally wounds an opponent (his friend Sir Henry Bellasis) in a duel, and is then forced to flee from England.[10]
August 6 – Molière's satirical comedy Tartuffe receives its première in a revised form as L'Imposteur and is immediately banned.[11]
August 20 – Molière writes his Lettre sur la comédie de l'Imposteur in response to criticisms of Tartuffe.
November – Grigory Kotoshikhin, Russian writer and diplomat (executed for murder, born 1630)
probable – John Heydon, English Rosicrucian and writer on the occult (born 1629)
References
↑ Oates, J. C. T. "The seventeenth century". A brief history of the collection. Cambridge University Library. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
↑ Pepys' diary, 2 March 1666. Project Gutenberg, accessed 2008-09-12.
↑ Lindenbaum, Peter (1995). "Authors and Publishers in the Late Seventeenth Century: New Evidence on their Relations". The Library. s6-17 (3). Oxford University Press: 250–269. doi:10.1093/library/s6-17.3.250. ISSN0024-2160.
↑ Dobson, Michael (1992). The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660–1769. Oxford University Press. pp.59–60. ISBN978-0-19-818323-5.
↑ Peter Sahlins (2017). 1668: The Year of the Animal in France. Zone Books. p.29.
↑ Boylan, Henry (1998). A dictionary of Irish biography. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p.64. ISBN9780717125074.
↑ Wall, Cynthia (1998). The literary and cultural spaces of Restoration London. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p.137. ISBN9780521630139.
↑ Madeleine de Scudery (2004). Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues. University of Chicago Press. p.7.
↑ Askew, Reginald (1997). Muskets and altars: Jeremy Taylor and the last of the Anglicans. London Herndon, VA: Mowbray. p.165. ISBN9780264674308.
↑ Young, Carlton (1993). Companion to the United Methodist hymnal. Nashville: Abingdon Press. p.819. ISBN9780687092604.
↑ Robert Rau Holzer (1990). Music and Poetry in Seventeenth-century Rome. University of Pennsylvania. p.422.
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