April 15 -
Edward Howard's play The Change of Crowns is first performed, in London. Actor
John Lacy improvises a few lines about influence-peddling at court, angering King Charles II, a member of the audience (as is Samuel Pepys). The theatre is closed for a time and Lacy jailed.
April 27 – The blind, impoverished 58-year-old
John Milton seals a contract (one of the first detailed contracts between author and printer known in England)[5] for publication of Paradise Lost with London printer
Samuel Simmons for an initial payment of £5.[6][7][8] The first edition is published in October[7] and sells out in eighteen months.[9]
July – English scholar and poet
Edmund Castell is imprisoned for debt.
July 28 – For the second time in his life, playwright
Thomas Porter mortally wounds an opponent (his friend Sir Henry Bellasis) in a
duel, and is then forced to flee from England.[10]
August 6 –
Molière's satirical comedy Tartuffe receives its première in a revised form as L'Imposteur and is immediately banned.[11]
August 20 – Molière writes his Lettre sur la comédie de l'Imposteur in response to criticisms of Tartuffe.
November –
Grigory Kotoshikhin, Russian writer and diplomat (executed for murder, born
1630)
probable –
John Heydon, English Rosicrucian and writer on the occult (born
1629)
References
^Oates, J. C. T.
"The seventeenth century". A brief history of the collection. Cambridge University Library. Archived from
the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
^Pepys' diary, 2 March 1666. Project Gutenberg, accessed 2008-09-12.
^Lindenbaum, Peter (1995). "Authors and Publishers in the Late Seventeenth Century: New Evidence on their Relations". The Library. s6-17 (3). Oxford University Press: 250–269.
doi:
10.1093/library/s6-17.3.250.
ISSN0024-2160.
^Dobson, Michael (1992). The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660–1769. Oxford University Press. pp. 59–60.
ISBN978-0-19-818323-5.
^Peter Sahlins (2017). 1668: The Year of the Animal in France. Zone Books. p. 29.
^Boylan, Henry (1998). A dictionary of Irish biography. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 64.
ISBN9780717125074.
^Wall, Cynthia (1998). The literary and cultural spaces of Restoration London. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 137.
ISBN9780521630139.
April 15 -
Edward Howard's play The Change of Crowns is first performed, in London. Actor
John Lacy improvises a few lines about influence-peddling at court, angering King Charles II, a member of the audience (as is Samuel Pepys). The theatre is closed for a time and Lacy jailed.
April 27 – The blind, impoverished 58-year-old
John Milton seals a contract (one of the first detailed contracts between author and printer known in England)[5] for publication of Paradise Lost with London printer
Samuel Simmons for an initial payment of £5.[6][7][8] The first edition is published in October[7] and sells out in eighteen months.[9]
July – English scholar and poet
Edmund Castell is imprisoned for debt.
July 28 – For the second time in his life, playwright
Thomas Porter mortally wounds an opponent (his friend Sir Henry Bellasis) in a
duel, and is then forced to flee from England.[10]
August 6 –
Molière's satirical comedy Tartuffe receives its première in a revised form as L'Imposteur and is immediately banned.[11]
August 20 – Molière writes his Lettre sur la comédie de l'Imposteur in response to criticisms of Tartuffe.
November –
Grigory Kotoshikhin, Russian writer and diplomat (executed for murder, born
1630)
probable –
John Heydon, English Rosicrucian and writer on the occult (born
1629)
References
^Oates, J. C. T.
"The seventeenth century". A brief history of the collection. Cambridge University Library. Archived from
the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
^Pepys' diary, 2 March 1666. Project Gutenberg, accessed 2008-09-12.
^Lindenbaum, Peter (1995). "Authors and Publishers in the Late Seventeenth Century: New Evidence on their Relations". The Library. s6-17 (3). Oxford University Press: 250–269.
doi:
10.1093/library/s6-17.3.250.
ISSN0024-2160.
^Dobson, Michael (1992). The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660–1769. Oxford University Press. pp. 59–60.
ISBN978-0-19-818323-5.
^Peter Sahlins (2017). 1668: The Year of the Animal in France. Zone Books. p. 29.
^Boylan, Henry (1998). A dictionary of Irish biography. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 64.
ISBN9780717125074.
^Wall, Cynthia (1998). The literary and cultural spaces of Restoration London. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 137.
ISBN9780521630139.