1684 in literature

Last updated
List of years in literature (table)

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1684.

Contents

Events

New books

Fiction

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Related Research Articles

Aphra Behn 17th century British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer

Aphra Behn was an English playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. She wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her into legal trouble; she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, she declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1696.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1694.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1689.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1688.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1686.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1681.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1680.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1679.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1678.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1677.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1674.

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1673.

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1671.

1670 in literature Overview of the events of 1670 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1670.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1666.

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1664.

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1643.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1640.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1639.

References

  1. ↑ Arnold, Catharine (2009). Bedlam: London and Its Mad. Simon and Schuster. p. 110. ISBN   9781847390004.
  2. ↑ Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward; William Leist Readwin Cates (1872). Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical. Lee and Shepard. pp. 1250–.
  3. 1 2 3 Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim (21 August 2013). The Annals of English Drama 975-1700. Routledge. p. 188. ISBN   978-1-134-67634-7.
  4. ↑ Wright, Gillian (2013). Producing Women's Poetry, 1600–1730: Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print. Cambridge University Press. p. 247. ISBN   9781107355668.
  5. ↑ John Flower (17 January 2013). Historical Dictionary of French Literature. Scarecrow Press. p. 150. ISBN   978-0-8108-7945-4.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.