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1685 in literature

List of years in literature (table)

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1685.

Events

  • January 22 – Antoine Furetière is expelled from the Académie française for proposing to publish a complete dictionary of the French language himself.[1]
  • February – The death of King Charles II of England brings a major theatrical flop in the Restoration era: Albion and Albanius – an allegorical drama in praise of the king with a text by John Dryden and music by Louis Grabu – is in rehearsal at the time.[2]
  • June – A revised version of Albion and Albanius fails largely because it coincides with the invasion of the Duke of Monmouth.[3]
  • June – Parliament revives the Printing Act of 1662, limiting London printers.[4]
  • unknown date – The Fourth Folio of Shakespeare's works is published in London.

New books

Prose

  • Scipion Abeille – Histoire des Os ("Description of the Bones")
  • Aphra Behn – Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
  • Ihara Saikaku – Five Women Who Loved Love
  • John Spencer – De Legibus Hebraeorum, Ritualibus et earum Rationibus libri tres

Drama

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Helen Julia McKinney (1936). Antoine Furetière, Novelist. University of California, Berkeley. p. 43.
  2. ^ Libretto. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  3. ^ Grove. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  4. ^ Licensing acts. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Thomas D'Urfey". English Poetry 1579-1830: Spenser and the Tradition. Archived from the original on 2014-05-31. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
  6. ^ John McClintock (1874). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Harper. p. 6.
  7. ^ Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature. By Robert Watt, M.D. in Two Parts: - Authors and Subjects. 1824. p. 776.
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