1660_in_literature

1660 in literature

The year 1660 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Samuel Pepys starts his diary on 1 January.
Blaise Pascal's Lettres Provinciales is burned as a heretical work on the orders of King Louis XIV of France.
The English Restoration: a host of royalist exiles return to England. Richard Baxter is among the many.
British theatres re-open. John Rhodes forms a company of young actors and stages Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre at the old Cockpit Theatre — the first Shakespearean production of the new era. Thomas Betterton makes his stage debut in the title role.
On 21 August, King Charles II issues a royal grant for two theatre companies: a King's Company under his own patronage, led by Thomas Killigrew, and a Duke's Company under the patronage of his brother, the Duke of York and future King James II, led by Sir William Davenant. On 8 November, the King's Company moves from the old Red Bull Theatre to the new Vere St. Theatre.
On 8 December, a performance of Othello features the first public performance by a professional English actress — probably either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall.
The new Stuart regime names Sir Roger L'Estrange its licenser of printed material.
Roger Boyle receives the title of Earl of Orrery.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux - Satires
John Dryden - Astraea Redux
Richard Flecknoe - Heroick Portraits
John Milton - The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth
Thomas Plowden, S.J. (trans.) - The Learned Man Defended and Reform'd (Daniello Bartoli's L'huomo di lettere)
Jeremy Taylor - Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience

Anonymous (mis-attributed to James Shirley) - Andromana published
Anonymous - Cromwell's Conspiracy
Anonymous (mis-attributed to Beaumont and Fletcher) - The Faithful Friends registered
Thomas Ford - Love's Labyrinth, or the Royal Shepherdess published
William Lower - The Amorous Fantasm (adapted from Philippe Quinault's Le Fantôme Amoreux)
Molière - Sganarelle, ou le Cocu imaginaire
John Tatham - London's Glory staged at the Guildhall, July 5; The Rump published