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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1662 .

Events [ edit ]

February 15 ? The first performance of Sir William Davenant 's The Law Against Lovers ? the first Restoration adaptation of Shakespeare, consisting of an amalgam of Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing ? is given by the Duke's Company at its new theater in Lincoln's Inn Fields , London. ^[1]
September 29 ? Samuel Pepys in his diary calls the King's Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in London "the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." ^[2]
October 18 ? John Ogilby , Master of the Revels in Ireland, opens the first Theatre Royal, Dublin , in Smock Alley. ^[3]
December 26 ? The premiere of Moliere 's comedy The School for Wives (L'Ecole des femmes) is held at the Theatre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honore) in Paris. ^[4]
unknown dates
- Two autos sacramentales by Pedro Calderon de la Barca ? Las ordenes militares and Mistica y real Babilonia ? are the subject of an inquiry by the Spanish Inquisition . The former is censured and its manuscript copies confiscated, and remains condemned until 1671. ^[5]
- The Parliament of England passes the first Printing Act of the Restoration era, the Licensing of the Press Act , which restricts London printing to a total of 24 printing houses, each with no more than three presses and three apprentices. Books printed abroad are banned. ^[6] Roger L'Estrange is granted a warrant to seize seditious books or pamphlets. ^[7]

New books [ edit ]

Prose [ edit ]

Church of England ? 1662 Book of Common Prayer ^[8]
Sarah Blackborow ? The Oppressed Prisoners' Complaint ^[9]
Margaret Cavendish ? Orations of Diverse Persons ^[10]
Cyrano de Bergerac (posthumous) ? Etats et Empires du Soleil (The States and Empires of the Sun) ^[11]
Franciscus van den Enden ? Kort Verhael van Nieuw-Nederland (Brief Account of New Netherland) ^[12]
John Evelyn ? Sculptura: or The history, and art of chalcography and engraving in copper... ^[13]
Thomas Fuller ? The History of the Worthies of England ^[14]
John Heydon
- The Harmony of the World ^[15]
- The English Physician's Guide ^[16]
Adam Olearius ? The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors (translated by John Davies, of Kidwelly ) ^[17]

Drama [ edit ]

Margaret Cavendish ? Plays Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious and Excellent Princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle ( closet dramas ) ^[18]
Aston Cockayne ? The Tragedy of Ovid published ^[19]
Pierre Corneille ? Sertorius ^[20]
Sir William Davenant ? The Law Against Lovers ^[1]
William Heminges ? The Jews' Tragedy published ^[21]
Robert Howard ? The Committee ^[22]
Francis Kirkman (probable compiler) ? The Wits, or Sport for Sport (collection of drolleries ) ^[23]
Thomas Middleton and John Webster ? Anything for a Quiet Life published ^[24]
Moliere ? The School for Wives ^[4]
John Wilson ? The Cheats ^[25]

Poetry [ edit ]

Joost van den Vondel ? Joannes de Boetgezant ^[26]
Michael Wigglesworth ? The Day of Doom, or A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement ^[27]

Births [ edit ]

January 27 ? Richard Bentley , English classicist (died 1742 ) ^[28]
October 18 ? Matthew Henry , English Bible commentator (died 1714 ) ^[29]
Baptized December 17 ? Samuel Wesley , English poet and author (died 1735 ) ^[30]
unknown date ? John Hudson , English classicist and librarian (died 1719 ) ^[31]

Deaths [ edit ]

March 10 ? Samuel Hartlib , German-born English polymath (born 1600 ) ^[32]
March 30 ? Francois le Metel de Boisrobert , French poet (born 1592 ) ^[33]
May ? Daniel de Priezac , French political writer (born 1590 ) ^[34]
August 17 ? Richard Hubberthorne , English Quaker preacher and writer (born 1628 ) ^[35]
August 19 ? Blaise Pascal , French philosopher (born 1623 ) ^[36]
unknown date ? Henry Jeanes , English controversialist and pamphleteer (born 1611 ) ^[37]

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b Shakespeare, William (2003). Much Ado about Nothing . Cambridge University Press. p. 26. ISBN 9781139835244 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .
^ "Monday 29 September 1662" . The Diary of Samuel Pepys . Archived from the original on 2021-09-29 . Retrieved 2022-04-27 .
^ Dr Paul Salzman; Ms Jo Wallwork (28 May 2013). Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas . Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-4094-7844-7 . Archived from the original on 19 July 2020 . Retrieved 9 July 2020 .
^ ^a ^b "School For Wives ? Swan Theatre Company" . www.swantheatrecompany.co.uk . Archived from the original on 28 June 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ Fiore, Robert L. (2015). Drama and Ethos: Natural-Law Ethics in Spanish Golden Age Theater . University Press of Kentucky. p. 109. ISBN 9780813162942 . Archived from the original on 2021-10-10 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .
^ "Charles II, 1662: An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses" . www.british-history.ac.uk . Archived from the original on 9 March 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ "Sir Roger L'Estrange ? English journalist" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ "1662 Book of Common Prayer" . Cambridge University Press . Archived from the original on 1 June 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ Prior, Mary (2005). Women in English Society, 1500?1800 . Routledge. p. 1670. ISBN 9781134897292 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .
^ Olsen, Kirstin (1994). Chronology of Women's History . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 77 . ISBN 9780313288036 .
^ "Les Etats et empires du soleil ? Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619?1655)" . Resources from the BnF . 1662. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ Bloemendal, Jan; Eversmann, Peter; Strietman, Elsa (2012). Drama, Performance and Debate: Theatre and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Period . BRILL. p. 315. ISBN 9789004236998 . Archived from the original on 2021-10-08 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .
^ [1] Archived 2022-04-27 at the Wayback Machine British Library. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
^ "Thomas Fuller ? English scholar, preacher, and author" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 8 April 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ Heydon, John (1662). The Harmony of the World: Being a Discourse Wherein the Phaenomena of Nature are Consonantly Salved and Adapted to Inferiour Intellects . Henry Brome. Archived from the original on 2021-10-11 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .
^ Heydon, John (21 March 1993). English Physician's Guide, Or A Holy Guide . Kessinger Publishing Co. ASIN 1564593517 .
^ Bibliographical details Retrieved 12 September 2017. Archived 2017-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
^ Dickinson, Peter; Higgins, Anne; Pierre, Paul Matthew St; Solomon, Diana; Zwagerman, Sean (2014). Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 56. ISBN 9781611476446 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .
^ Watson, George (1974). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature . Cambridge University Press. p. 1893. ISBN 9780521200042 .
^ "Sertorius" . lister.history.ox.ac.uk . Archived from the original on 17 March 2019 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ Gilliland, Thomas (1808). The Dramatic Mirror: Containing the History of the Stage from the Earliest Period to the Present Time . C. Chapple. p. 373. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .
^ "Sir Robert Howard ? English dramatist" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ "The Wits, or, Sport upon sport. Part I in select pieces of drollery, digested into scenes by way of dialogue: together with variety of humors of several nations, fitted for the pleasure and content of all persons, either in court, city, countrey, or camp: the like never before published" . ota.ox.ac.uk . Archived from the original on 16 January 2019 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ Taylor, Gary; Lavagnino, John (2007). Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works . Oxford University Press. p. 67. ISBN 9780199678730 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .
^ Partridge, Eric (2015). A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American . Routledge. p. 1552. ISBN 9781317445524 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .
^ Welch, Anthony (2012). The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past . Yale University Press. p. 1661. ISBN 978-0300188998 . Archived from the original on 2021-10-11 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .
^ "Michael Wigglesworth ? American theologian and writer" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ de Quehen, Hugh (2004). "Bentley, Richard (1662?1742), philologist and classical scholar". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi : 10.1093/ref:odnb/2169 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Henry, Matthew (2018). Deuteronomy ? Complete Bible Commentary Verse by Verse . Selected Christian Literature. p. 5. ISBN 9788582184141 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .
^ Rack, Henry D. (2004). "Wesley, Samuel ( bap. 1662, d. 1735), Church of England clergyman and poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi : 10.1093/ref:odnb/29070 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "CreatorsHudson, John (1662-1719), classical scholar and Bodley's Librarian" . discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk . Archived from the original on 20 August 2020 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ "Hartlib, Samuel" . galileo.rice.edu . Archived from the original on 30 May 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ "Francois Le Metel, seigneur de Boisrobert ? French dramatist" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ "Daniel de Priezac (1590?1662)" . data.bnf.fr . Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ Gill, Catie (2004). "Hubberthorne, Richard ( bap. 1628, d. 1662), Quaker activist" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi : 10.1093/ref:odnb/14018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Blaise Pascal - Biography, Facts, & Inventions" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 4 June 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ Black, J. William. "Jeanes, Henry (1611?1662), Church of England clergyman" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi : 10.1093/ref:odnb/14677 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[Shakespeare-1] Shakespeare, William (2003). Much Ado about Nothing . Cambridge University Press. p. 26. ISBN 9781139835244 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .

[2] "Monday 29 September 1662" . The Diary of Samuel Pepys . Archived from the original on 2021-09-29 . Retrieved 2022-04-27 .

[3] Dr Paul Salzman; Ms Jo Wallwork (28 May 2013). Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas . Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-4094-7844-7 . Archived from the original on 19 July 2020 . Retrieved 9 July 2020 .

[swan-4] "School For Wives ? Swan Theatre Company" . www.swantheatrecompany.co.uk . Archived from the original on 28 June 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[5] Fiore, Robert L. (2015). Drama and Ethos: Natural-Law Ethics in Spanish Golden Age Theater . University Press of Kentucky. p. 109. ISBN 9780813162942 . Archived from the original on 2021-10-10 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .

[6] "Charles II, 1662: An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses" . www.british-history.ac.uk . Archived from the original on 9 March 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[7] "Sir Roger L'Estrange ? English journalist" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[8] "1662 Book of Common Prayer" . Cambridge University Press . Archived from the original on 1 June 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[9] Prior, Mary (2005). Women in English Society, 1500?1800 . Routledge. p. 1670. ISBN 9781134897292 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .

[10] Olsen, Kirstin (1994). Chronology of Women's History . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 77 . ISBN 9780313288036 .

[11] "Les Etats et empires du soleil ? Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619?1655)" . Resources from the BnF . 1662. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[12] Bloemendal, Jan; Eversmann, Peter; Strietman, Elsa (2012). Drama, Performance and Debate: Theatre and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Period . BRILL. p. 315. ISBN 9789004236998 . Archived from the original on 2021-10-08 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .

[13] [1] Archived 2022-04-27 at the Wayback Machine British Library. Retrieved 4 November 2018.

[14] "Thomas Fuller ? English scholar, preacher, and author" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 8 April 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[15] Heydon, John (1662). The Harmony of the World: Being a Discourse Wherein the Phaenomena of Nature are Consonantly Salved and Adapted to Inferiour Intellects . Henry Brome. Archived from the original on 2021-10-11 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .

[16] Heydon, John (21 March 1993). English Physician's Guide, Or A Holy Guide . Kessinger Publishing Co. ASIN 1564593517 .

[17] Bibliographical details Retrieved 12 September 2017. Archived 2017-09-13 at the Wayback Machine

[18] Dickinson, Peter; Higgins, Anne; Pierre, Paul Matthew St; Solomon, Diana; Zwagerman, Sean (2014). Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 56. ISBN 9781611476446 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .

[19] Watson, George (1974). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature . Cambridge University Press. p. 1893. ISBN 9780521200042 .

[20] "Sertorius" . lister.history.ox.ac.uk . Archived from the original on 17 March 2019 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[21] Gilliland, Thomas (1808). The Dramatic Mirror: Containing the History of the Stage from the Earliest Period to the Present Time . C. Chapple. p. 373. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .

[22] "Sir Robert Howard ? English dramatist" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[23] "The Wits, or, Sport upon sport. Part I in select pieces of drollery, digested into scenes by way of dialogue: together with variety of humors of several nations, fitted for the pleasure and content of all persons, either in court, city, countrey, or camp: the like never before published" . ota.ox.ac.uk . Archived from the original on 16 January 2019 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[24] Taylor, Gary; Lavagnino, John (2007). Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works . Oxford University Press. p. 67. ISBN 9780199678730 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .

[25] Partridge, Eric (2015). A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American . Routledge. p. 1552. ISBN 9781317445524 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .

[26] Welch, Anthony (2012). The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past . Yale University Press. p. 1661. ISBN 978-0300188998 . Archived from the original on 2021-10-11 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .

[27] "Michael Wigglesworth ? American theologian and writer" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[28] Quehen, Hugh (2004). "Bentley, Richard (1662?1742), philologist and classical scholar". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi : 10.1093/ref:odnb/2169 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[29] Henry, Matthew (2018). Deuteronomy ? Complete Bible Commentary Verse by Verse . Selected Christian Literature. p. 5. ISBN 9788582184141 . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27 . Retrieved 2020-09-21 .

[30] Rack, Henry D. (2004). "Wesley, Samuel ( bap. 1662, d. 1735), Church of England clergyman and poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi : 10.1093/ref:odnb/29070 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[31] "CreatorsHudson, John (1662-1719), classical scholar and Bodley's Librarian" . discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk . Archived from the original on 20 August 2020 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[32] "Hartlib, Samuel" . galileo.rice.edu . Archived from the original on 30 May 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[33] "Francois Le Metel, seigneur de Boisrobert ? French dramatist" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[34] "Daniel de Priezac (1590?1662)" . data.bnf.fr . Archived from the original on 21 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[35] Gill, Catie (2004). "Hubberthorne, Richard ( bap. 1628, d. 1662), Quaker activist" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi : 10.1093/ref:odnb/14018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[36] "Blaise Pascal - Biography, Facts, & Inventions" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Archived from the original on 4 June 2018 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 .

[37] Black, J. William. "Jeanes, Henry (1611?1662), Church of England clergyman" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi : 10.1093/ref:odnb/14677 . Retrieved 4 June 2018 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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