1672 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1672.

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Events

• January 25 – London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is destroyed by fire. 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.[1] (The first occurred in 1664.) Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster and Dryden's The Maiden Queen are also staged with all-women casts new prologues by Dryden for the productions.
• September 13 – John Bunyan is released after twelve years' imprisonment for preaching without a licence.[2]
• December - John Dryden's play Marriage à la Mode first performed in London by the King's Company.[3]
• The Mercure de France is first published under the title Mercure galant).[4]

New books

Prose

• Nicolás Antonio – Bibliotheca Hispana Nova
• 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)[5]
• Nathaniel Hodges – Loimologia
• 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
• John Lacy – The Old Troop published
• Molière – Les Femmes Savantes
• Henry Nevil Payne – The Morning Ramble
• Jean Racine – Bajazet
• Thomas Shadwell
  • Epsom Wells
  • The Miser
• George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham – The Rehearsal published

Poetry

• Miguel de Barrios – El coro de las musas

Births

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

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)
• September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, pioneering American female author (born c. 1612)
• November 21 – Robert Creighton, Scottish classicist, politician and bishop (born 1593)

References

1. Howe, Elizabeth (1992). The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700. Cambridge University Press. pp. 57–8.
2. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
3. "Chadwyck-Healey Database of English Prose Drama (through 1750)". Retrieved 2011-03-16.
4. 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.
5. Wendy Laura Belcher: "Of Saints and Kings", History Today, November 2016.