This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1656.
Events
April 25 – In London, the Council of State, usually busy with larger matters, has taken on the censorship of individual books and orders
Robert Tichborne, the
Lord Mayor of the City of London, to burn a volume entitled Sportive Wit, or the Muses' Merriment for its "scandalous, lascivious, scurrilous, and profane matter".[1]
May 9 – Choice Drollery, Songs, and Sonnets is ordered to be destroyed by Britain's Council of State.
May – The Siege of Rhodes, Part I, by Sir
William Davenant, the "first English opera" (under the guise of a
recitative), is performed in a private theatre at his home,
Rutland House, in the
City of London. This includes the innovative use of painted backdrops and the appearance of England's first professional actress, Mrs. Coleman as Ianthe.[2]
unknown date – Two playbooks of old plays published in London in this year, The Careless Shepherdess and The Old Law, contain the first "play lists" or catalogs of published dramas ever issued in England.
Adam Olearius – Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung Der Muscowitischen und Persischen Reyse So durch gelegenheit einer Holsteinischen Gesandtschaft an den Russischen Zaar und König in Persien geschehen (Further new description of the Muscovite and Persian journey made on the occasion of a
Holstein mission to the Russian Tsar and the King of Persia)
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1656.
Events
April 25 – In London, the Council of State, usually busy with larger matters, has taken on the censorship of individual books and orders
Robert Tichborne, the
Lord Mayor of the City of London, to burn a volume entitled Sportive Wit, or the Muses' Merriment for its "scandalous, lascivious, scurrilous, and profane matter".[1]
May 9 – Choice Drollery, Songs, and Sonnets is ordered to be destroyed by Britain's Council of State.
May – The Siege of Rhodes, Part I, by Sir
William Davenant, the "first English opera" (under the guise of a
recitative), is performed in a private theatre at his home,
Rutland House, in the
City of London. This includes the innovative use of painted backdrops and the appearance of England's first professional actress, Mrs. Coleman as Ianthe.[2]
unknown date – Two playbooks of old plays published in London in this year, The Careless Shepherdess and The Old Law, contain the first "play lists" or catalogs of published dramas ever issued in England.
Adam Olearius – Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung Der Muscowitischen und Persischen Reyse So durch gelegenheit einer Holsteinischen Gesandtschaft an den Russischen Zaar und König in Persien geschehen (Further new description of the Muscovite and Persian journey made on the occasion of a
Holstein mission to the Russian Tsar and the King of Persia)