Katherine Philips' translation of
Pierre Corneille's Pompée is produced successfully at the
Theatre Royal, Dublin (Smock Alley Theatre) in Ireland, as the first rhymed version of a French tragedy in
English and the first English play written by a woman to be performed on a professional stage. It is published in Dublin and London later in the year.[2]
London printer John Twyn is
hanged, drawn and quartered at
Tyburn for producing the anonymous A Treatise of the Execution of Justice, justifying civil rebellion.[3]
John Spencer – A Discourse concerning Prodigies, wherein the vanety of Presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper Ends asserted and vindicated
Drama
Anonymous – The Wandering Whores' Complaint for Want of Trading (published)
Katherine Philips' translation of
Pierre Corneille's Pompée is produced successfully at the
Theatre Royal, Dublin (Smock Alley Theatre) in Ireland, as the first rhymed version of a French tragedy in
English and the first English play written by a woman to be performed on a professional stage. It is published in Dublin and London later in the year.[2]
London printer John Twyn is
hanged, drawn and quartered at
Tyburn for producing the anonymous A Treatise of the Execution of Justice, justifying civil rebellion.[3]
John Spencer – A Discourse concerning Prodigies, wherein the vanety of Presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper Ends asserted and vindicated
Drama
Anonymous – The Wandering Whores' Complaint for Want of Trading (published)