1676 in literature

Events

• March 2 – George Etherege's play The Man of Mode is given its first performance, in London.
• May 22 – Samuel Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House.
• December 11 – The first performance of William Wycherley's play The Plain Dealer is given in London.
• December – The German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz arrives in Hanover to take up a post as "councillor" and librarian to Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg.

New books

Prose

• Robert Barclay – Theses Theologiae
• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
• Charles Cotton – Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler)
• Ann, Lady Fanshawe – Memoir (of her deceased courtier husband, Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet)
• Domingo Fernández Navarrete – Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China (An Account of the Empire of China, Historical, Political, Moral, and Religious)
• Gabriel de Foigny – La Terre Australe connue (The Southern Land, Known)
• Thomas Tomkinson – Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism.
• Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler, 5th edition

Drama

• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (?) – Zoroastres
• John Crowne –The Country Wit
• Thomas Duffet – Beauty's Triumph (masque)
• Thomas d'Urfey
  • The Fool Turned Critic
  • Madam Fickle
• George Etherege – The Man of Mode
• Nathaniel Lee – Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar
• Thomas Otway – Don Carlos, Prince of Spain
• Edward Ravenscroft – The Wrangling Lovers
• Thomas Rawlins – Tom Essence
• Elkanah Settle
  • Pastor Fido
  • The Conquest of China by the Tartars
  • Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa (adapted from a story by Madeleine de Scudéry)
• Thomas Shadwell
  • The Libertine
  • The Virtuoso
• William Wycherley – The Plain Dealer
• Agustín Moreto
  • El lindo don Diego
  • No puede ser...
  • El parecido en la corte
  • Verdadera III parte de comedias

Births

• June 21 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (died 1729)
• July 4 – José de Cañizares, Spanish dramatist (died 1750)
• October 8 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar and monk (died 1764)
• Unknown dates
  • Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (died 1752)
  • Samuel Bownas, English Quaker religious writer (died 1753)
  • William Gwavas, English lawyer and writer in the Cornish language (died 1741)

Deaths

• March 22 – Lady Anne Clifford, English patron and correspondent (born 1590)
• July 25 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer and cleric (born 1604)
• August 17 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (born 1621)
• September 2 – Edward Worsley, English religious writer (born 1605)
• October 25 – Justus Georg Schottel, German grammarian (born 1612)
• November 1 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (born 1589)
• December 18 – Edward Benlowes, English poet (born 1603)
• December 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English polymath (born 1592)

References

References

1. Knighton, C. S.. (2004). "Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703)". Oxford University Press.
2. M. B. W. Tent. (17 October 2011). "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Polymath Who Brought Us Calculus". CRC Press.
3. Geoffroy Atkinson, ''[https://archive.org/stream/extraordinaryvoy00atkiuoft#page/36/mode/2up The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700]'', 1920 p. 36.
4. "Anne Clifford".