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1691 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1691. Events *March 17 – ''The Athenian Mercury'' begins twice-weekly publication in London. *May 5 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle becomes a member of the Académie française. New books Prose *Adrien Baillet – ''La vie de monsieur Descartes'' * Barbara Blaugdone – ''An Account of the Travels, Sufferings & Persecutions of Barbara Blaugdone. Given forth as a testimony to the Lord's power, and for the encouragement of Friends'' *Gerard Langbaine – ''An Account of the English Dramatic Poets'' *Maximilien Misson – ''Nouveau voyage d'Italie'' *Sir Dudley North – ''Discourses upon Trade'' *''The Kingdom of Ireland'' *Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – ''Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz'' Drama *Anonymous – ''The Braggadocio, or Bawd Turn'd Puritan'' *John Bancroft – ''Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March'' *Pedro Calderon de la Barca – ''Céfalo y Pocris'' *David-Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 17
Events Pre-1600 * 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. * 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eighteen, following the death of his father, Marcus Aurelius. * 455 – Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire; he forces Licinia Eudoxia, the widow of his predecessor, Valentinian III, to marry him. * 1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England. * 1400 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1601–1900 * 1776 – American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city. * 1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy. * 1824 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love For Money
''Love For Money; Or, The Boarding School'' is a 1691 comedy play by the English writer Thomas D'Urfey. It was originally staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane by the United Company. In 1733 it was adapted into a ballad opera '' The Boarding School'' by Charles Coffey. Original cast * Cave Underhill as Sir Rowland Rakehell * William Mountfort as Jack Amorous * John Hodgson as Will Merriton * John Freeman as Old Merriton * George Powell as Nedd Bragg alias Captain Bouncer * George Bright as Old Zachary Bragg * Thomas Doggett as Deputy Nincompoop * William Bowen as Monsieur Le Prate * Mr. Kirkham as Singing Master * John Bowman as Dancing Master * Mr. Peire as Presbyterian Parson * Anthony Leigh as Lady Addleplot * Mrs. Richardson as Lady Straddle * Anne Bracegirdle as Mirtilla * Frances Maria Knight as Miss Jenny * Mrs. Davies as Miss Molly * Charlotte Butler as Betty Jiltall * Katherine Corey as Crowstich * Margaret Osborne as Teareshift * Elinor Leigh Elinor L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 3
Events Pre-1600 * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. *1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. *1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south. *1509 – The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India. * 1583 – Battle of São Vicente takes place off Portuguese Brazil where three English warships led by navigator Edward Fenton fight off three Spanish galleons sinking one in the process. 1601–1900 * 1661 – Maratha forces under Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Umberkhind. *1690 – The colony of Mass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wives Excuse
''The Wives Excuse'' also ''The Wives Excuse; Or, Cuckolds Make Themselves'' is a 1691 comedy play by the Anglo-Irish writer Thomas Southerne. The title is sometimes written more grammatically as ''The Wives' Excuse''. It was originally staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane by the United Company with a cast that included Thomas Betterton as Lovemore, Edward Kynaston as Wellvile, Joseph Williams as Wilding, John Bowman as Courtall, William Mountfort as Friendall, George Bright as Ruffle, Joseph Harris as Musick Master, Elizabeth Barry as Mrs Friendall, Anne Bracegirdle as Mrs Sightly, Susanna Mountfort as Mrs Wittwoud and Katherine Corey Katherine Corey ( fl. 1660 – 1692) was an English actress of the Restoration era, one of the first generation of female performers to appear on the public stage in Britain. Corey played with the King's Company and the United Company, and had one ... as Mrs Teazall.Van Lennep p.402-03 References Bibliography * Van Lennep, W. ''The Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Southerne
Thomas Southerne (12 February 166026 May 1746) was an Irish dramatist. Biography Thomas Southerne, born on 12 February 1660, in Oxmantown, near Dublin, was an Irish dramatist. He was the son of Francis Southerne (a Dublin brewer) and Margaret Southerne. He attended Trinity College, Dublin, in 1676 for two years. In 1680, he began attending Middle Temple, London, to study law but was drawn away by his interest for theater. By 1682 he was greatly influenced by John Dryden and produced his first play, ''The Loyal Brother'', which was performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane by the King's Company. Southerne bought his prologue and epilogue from Dryden, who made extra income from his ability to turn such pieces. Despite his friendship with the new playwright, Dryden raised his prices for Southerne".(Kaufman) In 1684, Southerne produced his second play,''The Disappointment (play), The Disappointment'', or, ''The Mother in Fashion'' (Kaufman). However, in 1685 Southerne enlisted a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smith (English Poet)
John Smith (1662–1717) was an English poet and playwright. Life He was the son of John Smith of Barton, Gloucestershire, and in 1676 became a chorister of Magdalen College, Oxford, matriculating on 10 July 1679. He graduated B.A. in 1683, M.A. in 1686; in 1682 he became a clerk of the college, in 1689 usher of the college school. Smith died at Oxford on 16 July 1717, and was buried in the college chapel. Works Smith was the author of: * ''Odes Paraphras'd and imitated, in Miscellany Poems and Translations by Oxford Hands'', London, 1685. * ''Scarronides, or Virgil Travesty: a Mock-Poem on the second Book of Virgil's Æneis, in English Burlesque'', London, 1691. It followed the style of Charles Cotton's version of Book I of ''The Aeneid''. *''Poems upon Several Occasions'' (1713), containing evidence of Smith's dramatic writing, including prologues. It is generally thought that Smith was the author of ''Win her and take her, or Old Fools will be Medling: a Comedy, as it is ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athalie
''Athalie'' (, sometimes translated ''Athalia'') is a 1691 play, the final tragedy of Jean Racine, and has been described as the masterpiece of "one of the greatest literary artists known" and the "ripest work" of Racine's genius. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve deemed it comparable to ''Oedipus Rex'' in beauty, with "the true God added." August Wilhelm Schlegel thought Athalie to be "animated by divine breath"; other critics have regarded the poetics of drama in the play to be superior to those of Aristotle. History After the success of ''Esther'', Racine published ''Athalie'' in 1691, another play drawn from the Bible, which he expected would have the same success. Plot Athalie, widow of the king of Judah, rules the country and believes she has eliminated all the rest of the royal family. She has abandoned the Jewish religion for the worship of Baal. However, the late king's grandson Joash was rescued by the wife of the high priest. *Act 1 - Joad, the Jewish high priest, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 163921 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as ''Phèdre'', ''Andromaque'', and ''Athalie''. He did write one comedy, '' Les Plaideurs'', and a muted tragedy, ''Esther'' for the young. Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic (12 syllable) French alexandrine. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what American poet Robert Lowell described as a "diamond-edge", and the "glory of its hard, electric rage". Racine's dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight, the prevailing passion of his characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage. Biography Racine was born on 21 December 1639 in La Ferté-Milon ( Aisne) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Text Society
The Scottish Text Society (STS) is a text publication society founded in 1882 to promote the study of Scottish literature. The Society publishes scholarly editions of important texts from the country's literary history, and has played a significant role in the revival of interest in the literature and languages of Scotland. To date, the Society has published approximately 150 volumes, from the 14th to the 19th centuries, but with a focus on Middle Scots works of the 16th to 18th centuries. These editions include poetry, drama and prose works. Professor Sally Mapstone Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews is Honorary President of the Society. Notable publications * ''The Brus'', by John Barbour * ''The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace'', by Blind Hary * '' The Buke of the Law of Armys'', by Gilbert Hay * ''The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas'' * ''Virgil's'' Aeneid, ''Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Pitcairne
Archibald Pitcairne or Pitcairn (25 December 165220 October 1713) was a Scotland, Scottish physician. He was a physician and poet who first studied law at Edinburgh and Paris graduating with an M.A. from Edinburgh in 1671. He turned his attention to medicine, and commenced to practise in Edinburgh, around 1681. He was appointed professor of physic at Leyden, in 1692, resigning his chair. On returning to Edinburgh, however, around 1693, he was suspected of being at heart an atheist, chiefly on account of his mockery of the puritanical strictness of the Presbyterian church. He was the reputed author of two satirical works, 'The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation : a Comedy,' 1692, and Habel, a Satirical Poem,' 1692. He wrote also a number of Latin verses. He was one of the most celebrated physicians of his time. Early life Pitcairne was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. After obtaining some classical educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwich Park (play)
''Greenwich Park'' is a 1691 comedy play by the English writer William Mountfort. The original cast included Anthony Leigh as Sir Thomas Reveller, James Nokes as Raison, Cave Underhill as Sasaphras, John Hodgson as Lord Worthy, William Mountfort as Young Reveller, William Bowen as Thoughtless John Bowman as Beau, George Bright as Bully Bounce, Elizabeth Barry as Dorinda, Susanna Mountfort as Florella, Margaret Osborne as Lady Hazard, Katherine Corey as Aunt to Dorinda and Frances Maria Knight Frances is a French and English given name of Latin origin. In Latin the meaning of the name Frances is 'from France' or 'free one.' The male version of the name in English is Francis. The original Franciscus, meaning "Frenchman", comes from the ... as Mrs Raison. References Bibliography * Van Lennep, W. ''The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume One, 1660-1700''. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960 . 1691 plays West End plays Plays by William Mountfort Restoration comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
