Wikipedia

1660 in literature

List of years in literature (table)

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1660.

Events

  • January 11 – Samuel Pepys starts his diary, still using the Old Style date of 1 January.[1]
  • February/March – John Rhodes reopens the old Cockpit Theatre in London, forms a company of young actors and begins to stage plays.[2] His production of Pericles will be the first Shakespearean performance of the Restoration era; Thomas Betterton makes his stage debut in the title rôle.[3]
  • May – The English Restoration brings a host of Royalist exiles back to England, Richard Baxter among them, and many panegyrics are produced to commemorate the event.
  • June – A warrant is issued for the arrest of the anti-monarchist John Milton, who is forced into hiding, whilst his writings are burned.[4]
  • August 21 – The newly restored King Charles II of England 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 November 8, the King's Company moves from the old Red Bull Theatre to the new Vere St. Theatre, and in the same month the Duke's Company begins performing at the Salisbury Court Theatre.
  • September 5 – Roger Boyle receives the title of Earl of Orrery.
  • October 14 – Blaise Pascal's Lettres Provinciales is burned as a heretical work on the orders of King Louis XIV of France.[5]
  • October – John Milton is arrested and imprisoned.[4]
  • December – John Milton is released from prison, two weeks after his brother Christopher is appointed a judge.[4]
  • December 8 – The first English actress to appear on the professional stage in England in a non-singing rôle, as Desdemona in Othello, is variously considered to be Margaret Hughes, Anne Marshall or Katherine Corey.[6][7][8]
  • unknown dates
    • The Royalist poet Robert Herrick returns to his parish in Devon after the English Restoration.[9]
    • The Klencke Atlas is commissioned by Dutch merchants as a gift to King Charles II of England; at 1.75 m (5 ft 9in) tall it is one of the world's largest books.
    • Danish writer Birgitte Thott is given permission by King Frederick III of Denmark to receive an annual grant from the Soro Academy to pursue her studies, expand her library, and research into language.[10]

New books

Prose

Drama

Poetry

  • Rachel Jevon – Exultationis Carmen[13]
  • Robert Wild – Iter Boreale. Attempting Something upon the Successful and Matchless March of the Lord General George Monk from Scotland to London[14]

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Samuel Pepys (15 December 2000). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 7: 1666. University of California Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-520-22698-2.
  2. ^ Robert Chambers (1864). The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquties, in Connection with the Calendar. W.&R. Chambers. p. 720.
  3. ^ Don-John Dugas (2006). Marketing the Bard: Shakespeare in Performance and Print, 1660-1740. University of Missouri Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-8262-6544-9.
  4. ^ a b c Richard Bradford (13 May 2013). John Milton. Routledge. p. 47. ISBN 1-134-63270-3.
  5. ^ Joseph Gardner Weber (1963). The Persuasive Art of Pascal's Lettres Provinciales: a Study of Satire, Irony, and Argumentation. University of Illinois.
  6. ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
  7. ^ Howe, Elizabeth (1992). The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700. Cambridge University Press. p. 24.
  8. ^ Gilder, Rosamond (1931). Enter the Actress: The First Women in the Theatre. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 166.
  9. ^ Cain, Tom (2004). "Herrick, Robert (baptized 1591, d. 1674)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13092. Retrieved 2014-03-25.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
  10. ^ "Birgitte Thott | Gyldendal – Den Store Danske". denstoredanske.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  11. ^ Royle, Trevor. "Aretina". The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature.
  12. ^ Alexander Chalmers (1816). The General Biographical Dictionary. J. Nichols. pp. 293.
  13. ^ Helen Ostovich; Elizabeth Sauer (2 August 2004). Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700. Routledge. p. 339. ISBN 978-1-135-88769-8.
  14. ^ Notes to the Diary of Samuel Pepys Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  15. ^ Thomas Jones. "Lhuyd, Edward (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary and philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  16. ^ Joseph Timothy Haydn (1870). Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time. Moxon. p. 189.
  17. ^ Hugh Chisholm (1911). Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. University Press. p. 304.
  18. ^ Garfield Hopkin Hughes. "Powell, Thomas (1608-1660), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
This article is copied from an article on Wikipedia® - the free encyclopedia created and edited by its online user community. The text was not checked or edited by anyone on our staff. Although the vast majority of Wikipedia® encyclopedia articles provide accurate and timely information, please do not assume the accuracy of any particular article. This article is distributed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License.

Copyright © 2003-2025 Farlex, Inc Disclaimer
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.