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Overview of the events of 1670 in literature
Aphra Behn painted by
Peter Lely , c. 1670
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1670 .
Il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose sans que j'en susse rien. (For more than forty years I've been speaking prose without knowing anything about it) – Monsieur Jourdain,
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Events
January –
Françoise-Marguerite , daughter of
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné , marries the
Comte de Grignan .
[1]
August 18 –
John Dryden is appointed historiographer royal in England.
[2]
September 20 – Mrs
Aphra Behn 's first play, The Forced Marriage , is produced at the
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London by the
Duke's Company , with
Thomas Betterton in the lead.
[3]
October 14 – The première of
Molière 's comedy
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is performed by his troupe with himself in the title rôle, before the French royal court at the
Château de Chambord , with incidental music by
Jean-Baptiste Lully .
[4]
November 21 – The première of
Racine 's tragedy
Berenice takes place with the Comédiens du Roi at the
Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
[5]
unknown date –
Julian of Norwich 's
Revelations of Divine Love , the earliest known surviving book in English by a woman (written in the late
14th century ) is printed for the first time, in an edition by
Serenus de Cressy .
[6]
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
January 2 –
Thomas Yalden , English poet, translator and clergyman (died
1736 )
January 24 –
William Congreve , English dramatist (died
1729 )
[17]
April 23 –
Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos , English historian and travel writer (died
1735 )
October 26 –
Johann Joachim Lange , German Protestant theologian and philosopher (died
1744 )
[18]
November 15 –
Bernard Mandeville , Dutch-born English satirist and philosopher (died
1733 )
[19]
November 30 –
John Toland , Irish controversialist (died
1722 )
[20]
December 21 –
Jean-Baptiste Dubos (l'Abbé Du Bos), French historian (died
1742 )
[21]
unknown date –
Laurence Echard , English historian (died
1730 )
probable –
Richard Laughton , natural philosopher (died
1723 )
[22]
Deaths
February 17 –
Elizabeth Barnard , granddaughter of William Shakespeare (born
1608 )
[23]
March 10 –
Ludovicus a S. Carolo , French Carmelite scholar, writer and bibliographer (born
1608 )
March 31 –
Jacob Westerbaen , Dutch poet (born
1599 )
May 19 –
Ferdinando Ughelli , Italian church historian (born
1595 )
[24]
June 14 –
François Annat , French Jesuit theologian (born
1590 )
June 17 –
Henry Oxenden , poet (born
1609 )
[25]
August 7 –
Ignacio de Arbieto , Peruvian philosopher and historian (born
1585 )
September 11 –
Žygimantas Liauksminas , Lithuanian theologian, philosopher and musicologist (born 1596/97)
[26]
October 27 –
Vavasor Powell , Welsh Puritan writer and preacher (born
1617 )
[27]
November 15 –
John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský), Czech teacher and author (born
1592 )
December –
John Sparrow , translator (born
1615 )
[28]
December 11 –
Thomas Adams , English scholar and theologian (born
1633 )
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b Jean-Baptiste Lully (1990).
Le bourgeois gentilhomme: ouverture (1670) . King's Music.
^ Garreau, Joseph E. (1984), "Jean Racine", in Hochman, Stanley (ed.), McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama , vol. 4 (2nd ed.), New York: McGraw-Hill, p. 194,
ISBN
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^ Julian of Norwich (1978).
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Showings . Paulist Press. julian of norwich showings
^ Anna Marie Roos (12 February 2015).
The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume One: 1662-1677 . BRILL. p. 260.
ISBN
978-90-04-26332-1 .
^ Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (2004).
The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-century British and American Authors . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 157.
ISBN
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Las tres musas ultimas castellanas: Segunda cumbre del parnasso español . Imprenta Real.
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"William Congreve | English dramatist" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 23 August 2018 .
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ISBN
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^ Bernard Mandeville (2012).
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ISBN
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^ John Toland; Pierre Desmaizeaux (1814).
A New Edition of Toland's History of the Druids: With an Abstract of His Life and Writings; and a Copious Appendix, Containing Notes, Critical, Philological, and Explanatory . J. Watt. p. 41.
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L'abbé Du Bos: un initiateur de la pensée moderne (1670-1742) . Slatkine. p. 4.
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William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life . Oxford University Press. p. 319.
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^ Joseph Timothy Haydn (1870).
Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time: For the Use of the Statesman, the Historian, and the Journalist . Moxon. p. 546.
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^ Steponas Maculevičius (1999).
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