1691 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1691.

Events

March 17 – The Athenian Mercury begins twice-weekly publication in London.^[1]
May 5 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle becomes a member of the Académie française.^[2]

Adrien Baillet – La vie de monsieur Descartes^[3]
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^[4]
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

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-Augustin de Brueys & Jean Palaprat – Le Muet
John Dryden – King Arthur, or the British Worthy (a "semi-opera" with music by Henry Purcell)
Thomas d'Urfey – Love for Money
Joseph Harris – The Mistakes^[5]
William Mountfort – Greenwich Park
Archibald Pitcairne and others – The Phanaticks (first published as The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation, posthumously as "by a Scots Gentleman", 1722)^[6]
Jean Racine – Athalie^[7]
John Smith (probable author – issued anonymously) – Win Her and Take Her, or Old Fools will be Medling: a comedy^[8]
Thomas Southerne – The Wives' Excuse, or Cuckolds Make Themselves
John Wilson – Belphegor, or the Marriage of the Devil published

June 26 – John Flavel, English Presbyterian religious writer (born 1627)
July 30 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and critic (born 1639)
October 8 – Thomas Barlow, English religious writer and bishop (born 1609)
October 10 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (born 1613)
December 8 – Richard Baxter, English Puritan religious leader and writer (born 1615)
Probable year of death – Samuel Pordage, English poet and cleric (born 1633)

^ Adrian Johns (15 May 2009). The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. University of Chicago Press. p. 536. ISBN 978-0-226-40123-2.
^ Anthony Levi (1994). Guide to French literature: beginnings to 1789. St. James Press. p. 293. ISBN 978-1-55862-159-6.
^ Professor of History Anthony Grafton; William R. Newman; Anthony Grafton; Jed Z Buchwald (2001). Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe. MIT Press. p. 340. ISBN 978-0-262-14075-1.
^ Helen Ostovich; Elizabeth Sauer; Melissa Smith (2004). Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700. Psychology Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-415-96646-7.
^ "Bibliography". The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Vol. 8, The Age of Dryden. 1907–21. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
^ Pitcairne, Archibald (2012). MacQueen, John (ed.). The Phanaticks. Woodbridge: Scottish Text Society. ISBN 978-1-89797-635-7.
^ Jean Racine (2001). Britannicus ; Phaedra ; Athaliah. Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-19-283827-8.
^ "Underhill, Cave" in Dictionary of National Biography.
^ George Lillo (1979). The plays of George Lillo. Garland Pub. p. xxviii. ISBN 978-0-8240-3601-0.