1668 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1668.

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Events

• September 9 – Molière's comedy The Miser (L'Avare) is first performed, at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris.
• unknown date – Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler goes into its fourth edition.[1]

New books

Prose

• Juan Caramuel – Primus calamus
• Meric Casaubon – Of Credulity and Incredulity[2]
• Josiah Child – Brief Observations concerning Trade and the Interest of Money
• Jean Claude – Réponse au livre de P. Nouet sur l'eucharistie[3]
• Jan Comenius – The Way of Light
• John Dryden – Essay of Dramatick Poesie
• Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman – Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing
• Richard Flecknoe – Sir William Davenant's Voyage to the Other World
• Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen – Simplicius Simplicissimus[4] (first picaresque novel in German, dated 1669 but probably published this year)
• Johannes Hevelius – Cometographia
• Peter Heylin – Cyprianus Anglicanus (biography of William Laud)[5]
• Urban Hjärne – Stratonice (completed)[6]
• Adriaan Koerbagh – Een Bloemhof
• Henry Neville – The Isle of Pines
• Francisco Santos – Periquillo el de las gallineras
• John Wilkins – An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language

Drama

• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery[7]
  • Tryphon (performed)
  • Henry V (published)
  • Mustapha (published)
• Margaret Cavendish – Plays, Never Before Printed, Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princess, the Duchess of Newcastle (closet dramas)
• Sir William Davenant – The Man's the Master (a translation of Paul Scarron's Jodelet, ou le maître valet)
• John Dryden – An Evening's Love
• George Etherege – She Would if She Could
• Sir Robert Howard – The Great Favourite or the Duke of Lerma
• Molière
  • L'Avare (The Miser)
  • George Dandin ou le Mari confondu
• Sir Charles Sedley – The Mulberry-Garden
• Thomas Shadwell – The Sullen Lovers

Poetry

• Abraham Cowley – Poemata Latina (posthumous)
• Sir John Denham – Poems and Translations
• Jean de La Fontaine – Fables choisies, mises en vers
• Georg Stiernhielm – Musæ Suethizantes[6]

Births

• May 8 – Alain-René Lesage, French novelist and playwright (died 1747)
• September – Joseph Bingham, scholar (died 1723)
• November (baptised) – Thomas Woolston, deist writer (died 1731)
• November 11 – Johann Albert Fabricius (died 1736)
• December 21 – Herman Boerhaave, humanist (died 1738)

Deaths

• April 7 – Sir William Davenant, poet and playwright (born 1606)
• May 21 – Josephus Adjutus, theologian (born c. 1602)
• August 9 – Jakob Balde, Latinist poet and academic (born 1604)
• November 17 – Joseph Alleine, Nonconformist writer (born 1634)
• December 11 – Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla, actress (born 1633)
• December 22 – Stephen Daye, first American printer (born 1594)
• December 23 – Martin Baučer, Slovene historian (born 1595)

References

1. Izaak Walton (1875). The Complete Angler: Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds Fish and Fishing. Chatto and Windus. p. 318.
2. Kate Loveman (2008). Reading Fictions, 1660-1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7546-6237-2.
3. Bordeaux bibl. municipale (1842). Catalogue des livres. p. 673.
4. Grimmelshausen, H. J. Chr. (1669) [1668]. Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus [The adventurous Simplicissimus] (in German). Nuremberg: J. Fillion. OCLC 22567416.
5. "The Loseley Manuscripts: Records of the More and More Molyneux Family of Loseley Park". The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved February 21, 2013.
6. "Sweden". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. October 8, 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
7. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 7 (2002) pp. 110–111.