1672 in literature

Events from the year 1672 in literature.

Events

• January 25 – London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is destroyed by fire. ^[1] The King's Company moves to the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which the rival Duke's Company left the previous year.
• June – Thomas Killigrew mounts another all-female production of his The Parson's Wedding with the King's Company. ^[2] (The first occurred in 1664.) Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster and Dryden's The Maiden Queen are also staged with all-women casts and new prologues by Dryden for the productions.
• September 13 – John Bunyan is released after twelve years' imprisonment for preaching without a licence. ^[3]
• December – John Dryden's play Marriage à la Mode is first performed in London by the King's Company. ^[4]
• The Mercure de France is first published, under the title Mercure galant. ^[5]

New books

Prose

• Nicolás Antonio – Bibliotheca Hispana Nova ^[6]
• Nicolas Denys – Description Géographique et Historique des Costes de l’Amérique Septentrionale (Description and Natural History of the Coasts of North America)
• Richard Cumberland – De legibus naturae (On natural laws)
• Melchor Fuster – Conceptos predicables
• Gadla Walatta Petros (Ethiopian hagiography in Ge'ez language) ^[7]
• Nathaniel Hodges – Loimologia ^[8]
• James Janeway – A Token for Children, Part 2
• John Milton – Art of Logic
• Pierre Nicole – A Discourse Against Plays and Romances
• César Vichard de Saint-Réal – Dom Carlos

Drama

• Anonymous – Emilia (adapted from the Costanza di Rosamondo of Aurelio Aureli)
• Anonymous – The Illustrious Slaves
• Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  • Eco y Narciso
  • El hijo del sol, Faetón
  • La niña de Gómez Arias
• Thomas Corneille – Ariane
• John Dryden
  • The Assignation
  • Marriage à la mode (first performed; published the following year) ^[9]
• John Lacy (published)
  • The Dumb Lady, or The Farrier Made Physician
  • The Old Troop, or Monsier Ragou
• Molière – Les Femmes Savantes
• Henry Nevil Payne – The Morning Ramble
• Jean Racine – Bajazet
• Edward Ravenscroft – The Citizen Turned Gentleman
• Thomas Shadwell
  • Epsom Wells
  • The Miser
• George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and others – The Rehearsal (published)

Poetry

• Miguel de Barrios – El coro de las musas

Births

• January 18 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer, (died 1731) ^[10]
• March – Sir Richard Steele, Irish dramatist, satirist and politician (died 1729) ^[11]
• May 1 – Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet and politician (died 1719) ^[12]
• August 2 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist, historian and travel writer (died 1733)
• October 27 – Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna, Swedish writer (died 1737) ^[13]

Deaths

• June 14 – Matthew Wren, English scholar and cleric (born 1629)
• June 20 – Alonso Andrada, Spanish biographer and ascetic writer (born 1590)
• September 12 – Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French classicist (born 1615) ^[14]
• September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, pioneering American female author (born c. 1612) ^[15]
• November 21 – Robert Creighton, Scottish classicist, politician and bishop (born 1593)
• December 27 – Jacques Rohault, French philosopher (born 1618) ^[16]

References

1. The Month and Catholic Review Vol. XXIII. 1881. p. 544.
2. Howe, Elizabeth (1992). The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700 . Cambridge University Press. pp.  57–8.
3. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN   0-14-102715-0.
4. "Chadwyck-Healey Database of English Prose Drama (through 1750)" . Retrieved 2011-03-16.
5. Darnton, Robert; Roche, Daniel (1989). Revolution in Print: The Press in France 1775–1800. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 148. ISBN   0-520-06431-3.
6. An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography... 1814. p. 433.
7. Wendy Laura Belcher: "Of Saints and Kings", History Today , November 2016.
8. Frank Karslake (1979). Book Auction Records. Wm. Dawson. p. 226. ISBN   978-0-7129-1017-0.
9. John Dryden (1 January 1981). Marriage ? la Mode. U of Nebraska Press. p. 15. ISBN   0-8032-6556-5.
10. St James Press; Anthony Levi; Retired Professor of French Anthony Levi (1992). Guide to French Literature: Beginnings to 1789. St. James Press. p. 355. ISBN   978-1-55862-159-6.
11. George Atherton Aitken (1889). The Life of Richard Steele. W. Isbister, limited. p. 3. ISBN   978-1-4047-7407-0.
12. Joseph Addison (1858). Addison's Spectator. Derby & Jackson. p. 306.
13. Valborg Lindgärde (8 March 2018). "Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna". Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
14. J. Bertrand Payne (6 April 2020). Haydn ́s Universal Index of Biography. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 321. ISBN   978-3-8460-4770-5.
15. Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1855). Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck. p. 49.
16. Copleston, Frederick Charles (2003). A history of philosophy, Volume 4. Continuum International. p. 174. ISBN   978-0-8264-6898-7.