Overview of the events of 1660 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1660.
Events
January 11 – Samuel Pepys starts his diary, still using the Old Style date of 1 January.[ 1] February/March – John Rhodes reopens the old Cockpit Theatre in London , forms a company of young actors and begins to stage plays.[ 2] Pericles Shakespearean performance of the Restoration era; Thomas Betterton makes his stage debut in the title rôle.[ 3]
May – The English Restoration brings a host of Royalist exiles back to England, Richard Baxter among them, and many panegyrics are produced to commemorate the event.
June – A warrant is issued for the arrest of the anti-monarchist John Milton , who is forced into hiding, whilst his writings are burned.[ 4]
August 21 – The newly restored King Charles II of England issues a royal grant for two theatre companies: a King's Company under his own patronage, led by Thomas Killigrew , and a Duke's Company under the patronage of his brother, the Duke of York and future King James II , led by Sir William Davenant . On November 8, the King's Company moves from the old Red Bull Theatre to the new Vere St. Theatre , and in the same month the Duke's Company begins performing at the Salisbury Court Theatre .September 5 – Roger Boyle receives the title of Earl of Orrery .October 14 – Blaise Pascal 's Lettres Provinciales is burned as a heretical work on the orders of King Louis XIV of France .[ 5] October – John Milton is arrested and imprisoned.[ 4]
December – John Milton is released from prison, two weeks after his brother Christopher is appointed a judge.[ 4]
December 8 – The first English actress to appear on the professional stage in England in a non-singing rôle, as Desdemona in Othello Margaret Hughes , Anne Marshall or Katherine Corey .[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] unknown dates
The Royalist poet Robert Herrick returns to his parish in Devon after the English Restoration.[ 9]
The Klencke Atlas
Danish writer Birgitte Thott is given permission by King Frederick III of Denmark to receive an annual grant from the Soro Academy to pursue her studies, expand her library, and research into language.[ 10]
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Rachel Jevon – Exultationis Carmen [ 13] Robert Wild – Iter Boreale. Attempting Something upon the Successful and Matchless March of the Lord General George Monk from Scotland to London [ 14]
Births
Deaths
References
^ Samuel Pepys (15 December 2000). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 7: 1666 ISBN 978-0-520-22698-2 ^ Robert Chambers (1864). The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquties, in Connection with the Calendar ^ Don-John Dugas (2006). Marketing the Bard: Shakespeare in Performance and Print, 1660-1740 ISBN 978-0-8262-6544-9 ^ a b c Richard Bradford (13 May 2013). John Milton ISBN 1-134-63270-3 ^ Joseph Gardner Weber (1963). The Persuasive Art of Pascal's Lettres Provinciales: a Study of Satire, Irony, and Argumentation ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1 ^ Howe, Elizabeth (1992). The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700 24 . ^ Gilder, Rosamond (1931). Enter the Actress: The First Women in the Theatre . Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 166. ^ Cain, Tom (2004). "Herrick, Robert (baptized 1591, d. 1674)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/13092 . Retrieved 2014-03-25 . (subscription or UK public library membership required) ^ "Birgitte Thott | Gyldendal – Den Store Danske" . denstoredanske.dk . Retrieved 2016-05-13 .^ Royle, Trevor. "Aretina". The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature ^ Alexander Chalmers (1816). The General Biographical Dictionary 293 . ^ Helen Ostovich; Elizabeth Sauer (2 August 2004). Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700 ISBN 978-1-135-88769-8 ^ Notes to the Diary of Samuel Pepys Retrieved 24 August 2016 .
^ Thomas Jones. "Lhuyd, Edward (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary and philologist" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales . Retrieved 1 March 2019 . ^ Joseph Timothy Haydn (1870). Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time ^ Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Scarron, Paul" Encyclopædia Britannica 308– 309, see page 309, end of second para. ...and he died on the 6th of October 1660 ^ Garfield Hopkin Hughes. "Powell, Thomas (1608-1660), cleric" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales . Retrieved 13 July 2020 .
