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1664 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1664.

Events

  • February – London publisher John Twyn is hanged, drawn and quartered, having been convicted of treason for distributing seditious literature.An Exact Narrative of the Tryal and Condemnation of John Twyn for printing and dispersing of a treasonable book with the tryals of Thomas Brewster, bookseller, Simon Dover, printer, Nathan Brooks, bookbinder, for printing, publishing, and uttering of seditious, scandalous, and malitious pamphlets: at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, London, the 20th, and 22nd of February, c. 1663.
  • April 6 – Moses ben Isaac Bonems is the first signatory of the approbations to works given by the members of the Council of Four Lands at the Gramnitza (candlestick) fair.
  • May 12 – Molière's comedy Tartuffe is performed in its original version as part of "The Pleasures of the Enchanted Island" at the court of King Louis XIV of France to mark the start of construction of the Palace of Versailles, but objections to its presentation of a hypocritical religious impostor ban it from later public presentation.{{cite book|author=Roland Racevskis|title=Time and ways of knowing under Louis XIV : Molière, Sévigné, Lafayette|publisher=Bucknell University Press|year=2003|ISBN=9780838755198|page=194}}
  • June – Gazzetta di Mantova is first published in Mantua, Italy. By 2009 it will be the world's oldest private newspaper still published, and the oldest one continuously published in print.{{cite news |title=5 The top oldest newspapers |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-260871225.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610083636/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-260871225.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-06-10 |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |location=England |date=2011-07-08}}
  • June 20 – Racine's tragedy La Thébaïde receives its first performance, by Molière's troupe at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris.
  • October – Thomas Killigrew and the King's Company stage Killigrew's The Parson's Wedding with an all-female cast. (Killigrew attempts a similar all-female production of his play Thomaso, although this is never achieved.)
  • November 5 – Sir William Davenant's "dramatic opera" Macbeth, adapted from Shakespeare's play, is performed for the first time.{{cite book|title=Music for Macbeth|publisher=A-R Editions|year=2004| page=vii}}

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Births

  • January 24 (baptised) – Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist and architect (died 1726){{cite EB1911|wstitle = Vanbrugh, Sir John|volume=27|pages=880–881 |first=Thomas |last=Seccombe |author-link=Thomas Seccombe }}
  • July 21 (or 23) – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (died 1721){{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese|publisher=Garland|year=1996| page=875}}
  • November 9 – Henry Wharton, English writer and librarian (died 1695)
  • Probable year of birth
  • Charles Hopkins, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (died 1700)
  • William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist (died 1692)

Deaths

References

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