1672 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1672.
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Events
- January 25 - In London, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is destroyed by fire. The King's Company moves into the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which their rivals the Duke's Company left the previous year.
- June - Thomas Killigrew mounts another all-female production of his The Parson's Wedding with the King's Company[1] (the first occurred in 1664). Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster and Dryden's The Maiden Queen are also staged with all-women casts at this time, with Dryden writing new Prologues for the productions.
- September 13 - John Bunyan released after a 12-year imprisonment for preaching without a licence.[2]
- December - John Dryden's play Marriage à la Mode first performed in London by the King's Company.[3]
- First publication of the Mercure de France (under the title of Mercure galant).[4]
New books
- Richard Cumberland - De legibus naturae (On natural laws)
- Nathaniel Hodges - Loimologia
- James Janeway - A Token for Children, Part 2
- John Milton - Art of Logic
- Pierre Nicole - A Discourse Against Plays and Romances
- César Vichard de Saint-Réal - Dom Carlos
- Nicolás Antonio - Bibliotheca Hispana Nova
- Melchor Fuster - Conceptos predicables
New drama
- Anonymous - Emilia (adapted from the Costanza di Rosamondo of Aurelio Aureli)
- Anonymous - The Illustrious Slaves
- John Dryden
- John Lacy - The Old Troop published
- Molière - Les Femmes Savantes
- Henry Nevil Payne - The Morning Ramble
- Jean Racine - Bajazet
- Thomas Shadwell
- Epsom Wells
- The Miser
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - The Rehearsal published
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Eco y Narciso
- El hijo del sol, Faetón
- La niña de Gómez Arias
New poetry
- Miguel de Barrios - El coro de las musas
Births
- January 18 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer, (died 1731)
- March – Sir Richard Steele, Irish dramatist, satirist and politician (died 1729)
- May 1 – Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet and politician (died 1719)
- August 2 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist, historian and travel writer (died 1733)
- October 27 - Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna, Swedish writer (died 1737)
Deaths
- June 14 – Matthew Wren, English scholar and cleric (born 1629)
- June 20 – Alonso Andrada, Spanish biographer and ascetic writer (born 1590)
- September 12 – Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French classicist (born 1615)
- September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, pioneering American female author (born c. 1612)
- November 21 – Robert Creighton, Scottish classicist, politician and bishop (born 1593)
In literature
- Alexandre Dumas' novel The Black Tulip (La Tulipe noire, 1850) opens in this year.
