1663 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1663.

Events

• February – The Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (the Academy of the Humanities) is founded in Paris.
• February 24 – John Milton marries Elizabeth Minshull.
• May 7 – The King's Company inaugurate their new theatre, the first Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, with a revival of Fletcher's The Humorous Lieutenant.^[1][2] The play is a hit, and runs for twelve straight nights — very unusual in the repertory system of the time.
• August – The Playhouse to Be Let, an anthology of work by Sir William Davenant, is performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.
• December 1 – John Dryden marries Elizabeth, sister of Sir Robert Howard; Dryden and John Aubrey become Fellows of the Royal Society in the same year.
• Katherine Philips' translation of Pierre Corneille's Pompée is successfully produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin (Smock Alley Theatre) in Ireland, the first rhymed version of a French tragedy in English and the first English play written by a woman to be performed on the professional stage. It is published in Dublin and London later in the year.
• In the Electorate of Bavaria, a legal deposit law mandates the deposit of copies of newly printed books in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.
• In England, Roger L'Estrange is appointed Surveyor of the Imprimery and Printing Presses^[3][4] and licenser of the press.^[2]
• Publication of the Third Folio of Shakespeare's works by Philip Chetwinde in London, adding Pericles and six plays of Shakespeare Apocrypha to the canon.
• Publication at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the "Eliot Indian Bible" (Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God), the first complete Bible published in the Americas, a translation by English-born Puritan missionary John Eliot of the Geneva Bible from English into the Massachusett language (Natic or Wômpanâak) variety of the Algonquian languages, printed by Samuel Green.^[5]

New books

Prose

• Francisco Santos – Día y noche de Madrid, discursos de lo más notable que en él pasa
• Molière – La Critique de l'école des femmes

Drama

• Anonymous – The Wandering Whores' Complaint for Want of Trading (published)
• Miguel de Barrios – El Espanjol de Oran
• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – The General
• Henry Cary – The Marriage Night
• Abraham Cowley – The Cutter of Coleman Street
• William Davenant
  • The Playhouse to Be Let (performed)
  • The Siege of Rhodes Part 2 (published)
• John Dryden – The Wild Gallant
• Andreas Gryphius
  • Absurda Comica, oder Herr Peter Squentz
  • Papinianus
• James Howard – The English Monsieur
• Sir Robert Howard – The Committee
• "T. P." – A Witty Combat, or the Female Victor (once attributed to Thomas Porter)
• Thomas Porter – The Villain
• Richard Rhodes – Flora's Vagaries
• Sir Robert Stapylton
  • The Stepmother
  • The Slighted Maid
• Sir Samuel Tuke – The Adventures of Five Hours (adapted from Antonio Coello's Los empeños de seis horas)
• Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  • El divino Orfeo
  • El mágico prodigioso

Poetry

• Abraham Cowley – Verses Upon Several Occasions
• Sir William Davenant – Poem, to the King’s most sacred Majesty
• José Martinez Guindal – Poema sagrado de Christo paciente
• Juan de Ovando Santarén – Ocios de Castalia

Births

• February 12 – Cotton Mather, New England Puritan author and minister (died 1728)
• March 6 – Francis Atterbury, English man of letters and bishop (died 1732
• March 22 – August Hermann Francke, German theologian (died 1727)
• May 20 – William Bradford, American printer (died 1752)
• Unknown dates
  • William King, English poet (died 1712)
  • George Stepney, English poet (died 1707)
• Probable year of birth – Delarivier Manley, English novelist, playwright and pamphleteer (died 1724)

Deaths

• April 5 – John Norton, English religious writer (born 1606)
• April 17 – David Questiers, Dutch poet (born 1623)
• July 14 – Elizabeth Egerton, countess of Bridgwater, English essayist (childbirth, born 1626)
• October 31 – Théophile Raynaud, French theologian (born 1583)
• December 5 – Severo Bonini, Italian music writer (born 1582)
• Unknown date – Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor, French memoirist (born c. 1606)

References

1. "Samuel Pepys Diary May 1663". Retrieved 2014-01-08.
2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 270. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
3. "The Censorship of L'Estrange". The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
4. Cousin, John William (1910). "Estrange, Sir Roger". A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
5. "The Eliot Indian Bible: First Bible Printed in America". Library of Congress Bible Collection. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. 2008. Retrieved 2014-12-02.