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1662 in literature
Overview of the events of 1662 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1662.
- February 15 – The first performance of Sir William Davenant's The Law Against Lovers – the first Restoration adaptation of Shakespeare, consisting of an amalgam of Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing – is given by the Duke's Company at its new theater in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.[1]
- September 29 – Samuel Pepys in his diary calls the King's Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in London "the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life."[2]
- October 18 – John Ogilby, Master of the Revels in Ireland, opens the first Theatre Royal, Dublin, in Smock Alley.[3]
- December 26 – The première of Molière's comedy The School for Wives (L'École des femmes) is held at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris.[4]
- unknown dates
- Two autos sacramentales by Pedro Calderón de la Barca – Las órdenes militares and Mística y real Babilonia – are the subject of an inquiry by the Spanish Inquisition. The former is censured and its manuscript copies confiscated, and remains condemned until 1671.[5]
- The Parliament of England passes the first Printing Act of the Restoration era, the Licensing of the Press Act, which restricts London printing to a total of 24 printing houses, each with no more than three presses and three apprentices. Books printed abroad are banned.[6] Roger L'Estrange is granted a warrant to seize seditious books or pamphlets.[7]
Prose
- Church of England – 1662 Book of Common Prayer[8]
- Sarah Blackborow – The Oppressed Prisoners' Complaint[9]
- Margaret Cavendish – Orations of Diverse Persons[10]
- Cyrano de Bergerac (posthumous) – États et Empires du Soleil (The States and Empires of the Sun)[11]
- Franciscus van den Enden – Kort Verhael van Nieuw-Nederland (Brief Account of New Netherland)[12]
- John Evelyn – Sculptura: or The history, and art of chalcography and engraving in copper...[13]
- Thomas Fuller – The History of the Worthies of England[14]
- John Heydon
- Adam Olearius – The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors (translated by John Davies, of Kidwelly)[17]
Drama
- Margaret Cavendish – Plays Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious and Excellent Princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle (closet dramas)[18]
- Aston Cockayne – The Tragedy of Ovid published[19]
- Pierre Corneille – Sertorius[20]
- Sir William Davenant – The Law Against Lovers[1]
- William Heminges – The Jews' Tragedy published[21]
- Robert Howard – The Committee[22]
- Francis Kirkman (probable compiler) – The Wits, or Sport for Sport (collection of drolleries)[23]
- Thomas Middleton and John Webster – Anything for a Quiet Life published[24]
- Molière – The School for Wives[4]
- John Wilson – The Cheats[25]
Poetry
- January 27 – Richard Bentley, English classicist (died 1742)[28]
- October 18 – Matthew Henry, English Bible commentator (died 1714)[29]
- Baptized December 17 – Samuel Wesley, English poet and author (died 1735)[30]
- unknown date – John Hudson, English classicist and librarian (died 1719)[31]
- March 10 – Samuel Hartlib, German-born English polymath (born 1600)[32]
- March 30 – François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (born 1592)[33]
- May – Daniel de Priézac, French political writer (born 1590)[34]
- August 17 – Richard Hubberthorne, English Quaker preacher and writer (born 1628)[35]
- August 19 – Blaise Pascal, French philosopher (born 1623)[36]
- unknown date – Henry Jeanes, English controversialist and pamphleteer (born 1611)[37]
- Shakespeare, William (2003). Much Ado about Nothing. Cambridge University Press. p. 26. ISBN 9781139835244. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- "Monday 29 September 1662". The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Archived from the original on 2021-09-29. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
- Dr Paul Salzman; Ms Jo Wallwork (28 May 2013). Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-4094-7844-7. Archived from the original on 19 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- "School For Wives – Swan Theatre Company". www.swantheatrecompany.co.uk. Archived from the original on 28 June 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- Fiore, Robert L. (2015). Drama and Ethos: Natural-Law Ethics in Spanish Golden Age Theater. University Press of Kentucky. p. 109. ISBN 9780813162942. Archived from the original on 2021-10-10. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- "Charles II, 1662: An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses". www.british-history.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 9 March 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- "Sir Roger L'Estrange – English journalist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- "1662 Book of Common Prayer". Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 1 June 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- Prior, Mary (2005). Women in English Society, 1500–1800. Routledge. p. 1670. ISBN 9781134897292. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- Olsen, Kirstin (1994). Chronology of Women's History. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 77. ISBN 9780313288036.
- "Les États et empires du soleil – Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655)". Resources from the BnF. 1662. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- Bloemendal, Jan; Eversmann, Peter; Strietman, Elsa (2012). Drama, Performance and Debate: Theatre and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Period. BRILL. p. 315. ISBN 9789004236998. Archived from the original on 2021-10-08. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- Archived 2022-04-27 at the Wayback Machine British Library. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- "Thomas Fuller – English scholar, preacher, and author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 8 April 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- Heydon, John (1662). The Harmony of the World: Being a Discourse Wherein the Phaenomena of Nature are Consonantly Salved and Adapted to Inferiour Intellects. Henry Brome. Archived from the original on 2021-10-11. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- Heydon, John (21 March 1993). English Physician's Guide, Or A Holy Guide. Kessinger Publishing Co. ASIN 1564593517 .
- Bibliographical details Retrieved 12 September 2017. Archived 2017-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Dickinson, Peter; Higgins, Anne; Pierre, Paul Matthew St; Solomon, Diana; Zwagerman, Sean (2014). Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 56. ISBN 9781611476446. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- Watson, George (1974). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 1893. ISBN 9780521200042.
- "Sertorius". lister.history.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 17 March 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- Gilliland, Thomas (1808). The Dramatic Mirror: Containing the History of the Stage from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. C. Chapple. p. 373. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- "Sir Robert Howard – English dramatist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- "The Wits, or, Sport upon sport. Part I in select pieces of drollery, digested into scenes by way of dialogue: together with variety of humors of several nations, fitted for the pleasure and content of all persons, either in court, city, countrey, or camp: the like never before published". ota.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- Taylor, Gary; Lavagnino, John (2007). Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works. Oxford University Press. p. 67. ISBN 9780199678730. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- Partridge, Eric (2015). A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American. Routledge. p. 1552. ISBN 9781317445524. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- Welch, Anthony (2012). The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past. Yale University Press. p. 1661. ISBN 978-0300188998. Archived from the original on 2021-10-11. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- "Michael Wigglesworth – American theologian and writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- de Quehen, Hugh (2004). "Bentley, Richard (1662–1742), philologist and classical scholar". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2169. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Henry, Matthew (2018). Deuteronomy – Complete Bible Commentary Verse by Verse. Selected Christian Literature. p. 5. ISBN 9788582184141. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- Rack, Henry D. (2004). "Wesley, Samuel (bap. 1662, d. 1735), Church of England clergyman and poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29070. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "CreatorsHudson, John (1662-1719), classical scholar and Bodley's Librarian". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- "Hartlib, Samuel". galileo.rice.edu. Archived from the original on 30 May 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- "François Le Métel, seigneur de Boisrobert – French dramatist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- "Daniel de Priezac (1590–1662)". data.bnf.fr. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- Gill, Catie (2004). "Hubberthorne, Richard (bap. 1628, d. 1662), Quaker activist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14018. Retrieved 4 June 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "Blaise Pascal - Biography, Facts, & Inventions". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 4 June 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- Black, J. William. "Jeanes, Henry (1611–1662), Church of England clergyman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14677. Retrieved 4 June 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)