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Overview of the events of 1690 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
1690
.
Events
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December 10
– Playwright
Henry Nevil Payne
is tortured for his role in the
Montgomery Plot
to restore
James II
to the throne — the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain.
Colley Cibber
becomes an actor with the
Drury Lane
company.
New books
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Prose
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Nicholas Barbon
–
A Discourse of Trade
Pierre Bayle
(attributed) –
Avis important aux réfugiés
Sir
Thomas Browne
(posthumously) –
A Letter to a Friend
Antoine Furetière
(posthumously) –
Dictionnaire universel
John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(dated this year but published 1689)
Two Treatises of Government
Samuel Pepys
–
Memoires of the Navy
Baro Urbigerus
–
Aphorismi Urbigerani
Drama
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John Bancroft
–
King Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March
Aphra Behn
(posthumously) –
The Widow Ranter
Thomas Betterton
–
The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian
(adapted from
Fletcher
and
Massinger
's
The Prophetess
, with music by
Henry Purcell
)
Edmé Boursault
–
Esope à la ville
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
–
Mr. Anthony
John Crowne
–
The English Friar
John Dryden
Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias
Don Sebastian
William Mountfort
–
The Successful Strangers
George Powell
Alphonso, King of Naples
The Treacherous Brothers
Elkanah Settle
–
Distress'd Innocence, or The Princess of Persia
Thomas Shadwell
–
The Scourers
Thomas Southerne
–
Sir Anthony Love
"W. C." –
The Rape Reveng'd, or the Spanish Revolution
(adapted from
William Rowley
's
All's Lost by Lust
)
Poetry
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Thomas D'Urfey
:
Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster
[1]
New Poems
See also
1690 in poetry
Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
–
Obras líricas y cómicas, divinas y humanas
Births
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February 3
–
Richard Rawlinson
, English antiquary and cleric (died
1755
)
September 12
–
Peter Dens
, Netherlandish theologian (died
1775
)
1689/90 –
Susanna Highmore
, English poet (died
1750
)
Deaths
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March 21
–
Henry Teonge
, English diarist and cleric (born
1621
)
May 5
–
Theodore Haak
, German-born English translator and natural philosopher (born
1605
)
May 12
–
John Rushworth
, English author of
Historical Collections
(born c. 1612)
October 3
–
Robert Barclay
, Scottish Quaker writer (born c. 1648)
October 25
–
Cornelius Hazart
, Dutch Jesuit controversialist (born
1617
)
Unknown date
–
Franciscus Plante
, Dutch poet (born
1613
)
[2]
Probable year of death
–
Jeremias Felbinger
, German writer, teacher and lexicographer (born
1616
)
References
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]
^
Cox, Michael, editor,
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
^
Nederlands Historisch Genootschap (1982).
BMGN
(in Dutch). Nederlands Historisch Genootschap. p. 352.
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