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Overview of the events of 1665 in literature
Overview of the events of 1665 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1665 .
Events
January 5 –
Journal des sçavans , the first scientific journal, begins publication in
France .
[1]
February 15 –
Molière 's comedy
Dom Juan is first presented, at the
Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris, in its original prose version with the playwright playing Sganarelle; it is withdrawn after 15 performances after attacks on its morality.
March – Fifteen-year-old
Nell Gwyn makes her first firmly recorded appearance on the
London stage, in
John Dryden 's
heroic drama
The Indian Emperour , playing Cydaria, daughter of
Montezuma and love interest to
Cortez (played by her real-life lover and acting coach
Charles Hart ). Hitherto she has been a theatre orange-seller. Her performance is poor.
[2]
March 6 – The
Royal Society of London's
Philosophical Transactions begins publication as the first scientific journal in English and the oldest to be continuously published.
March 16 – Royalist
William Cavendish is created Duke of Newcastle. His wife
Margaret Cavendish becomes duchess.
Spring – An early version of the satirical play
The Rehearsal , by
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham , is prepared for production, but cancelled due to the
Great Plague of London . In this version, the hero, Bilboa, mocks Sir
Robert Howard . When the play is finally staged in
1672 , changed conditions inspire a revision and "Bilboa" is replaced by "Bayes," a figure inspired by
John Dryden .
April 17 –
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy , elected this year to the
Académie française , begins a year's imprisonment in the
Bastille for besmirching the reputation of ladies of the French Court in Histoire amoureuse des Gaules .
May –
Nell Gwyn appears opposite Charles Hart in
James Howard 's
Restoration comedy All Mistaken, or the Mad Couple .
[3]
August 27 – Ye Bare & Ye Cubbe , the first play in English in the American colonies, is performed in Pungoteague,
Virginia .
September 22 –
Molière 's comedy
L'Amour médecin ("Love, the doctor") is first presented, before
Louis XIV of France at the
Palace of Versailles with music by
Jean-Baptiste Lully .
November 7 –
The London Gazette is first published, under the title The Oxford Gazette .
[4]
December 4 –
Jean Racine 's tragedy
Alexandre le Grand is premièred by
Molière 's troupe at the
Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris. Eleven days later, Racine moves it to the Comédiens du Roi at the
Hôtel de Bourgogne , causing a rift with Molière.
New books
Prose
John Bunyan
The End of the World, The Resurrection of the Dead and Eternal Judgment
[5]
The Holy City or the New Jerusalem
Richard Head – The English Rogue described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant comprehending a compleat history of the most eminent cheats of both sexes
Robert Hooke –
Micrographia
Drama
Poetry
Births
Deaths
April 21 –
Jean-Joseph Surin , French devotional writer (born
1600 )
July 11 – Sir
Kenelm Digby , English courtier, diplomat and national philosopher (born
1603 )
July 28 –
Louis Giry , French lawyer, translator and writer (born
1595 )
September 12 –
Jean Bolland , Dutch hagiographer (born
1596 )
November/December –
William Caton , English Quaker preacher and writer (born
1636 )
[9]
December –
John Ellis , Welsh religious writer (born c.1598)
[10]
December 2 –
Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet , literary hostess (born
1589 )
unknown date –
Bucherius , French Jesuit and chronological scholar (born
1576 )
References
^
Hallam, Henry (1842).
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries . Harper & Brothers. p.
406 .
^
Uglow, Jenny (2010) [2009]. A Gambling Man . London: Faber. p. 323.
ISBN
978-0-571-21734-2 .
^ Howe, Elizabeth (1992).
The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700 . Cambridge University Press. p.
66 .
ISBN
0-521-42210-8 .
^
"No. 1" .
The Oxford Gazette . November 7, 1665. p. 1.
^ Greaves, Richard (1992). John Bunyan and English nonconformity . London Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press. p. 41.
ISBN
9780826420435 .
^ Plett, Heinrich (1999). Rhetorica movet : studies in historical and modern rhetoric in honor of Heinrich F. Plett . Leiden Boston Köln: Brill. p. 301.
ISBN
9789004113398 .
^ Bermel, Albert (1990). Molière's theatrical bounty: a new view of the plays . Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 70–71.
ISBN
9780809315505 .
^ Michael G. Moran (1994).
Eighteenth-century British and American Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 99.
ISBN
978-0-313-27909-6 .
^
Journal of William Caton. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
^ Malone, Edward A.
"Ellis, John (1598/9–1665)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access) .
Oxford University Press . Retrieved April 26, 2008 .