1691 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1691.

New books

Prose

• Barbara Blaugdone – An Account of the Travels, Sufferings & Persecutions of Barbara Blaugdone. Given forth as a testimony to the Lord's power, and for the encouragement of Friends
• Gerard Langbaine – An Account of the English Dramatic Poets
• Sir Dudley North – Discourses upon Trade
• The Kingdom of Ireland
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz

Drama

• Anonymous – The Braggadocio, or Bawd Turn'd Puritan
• John Bancroft – Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March
• Pedro Calderon de la Barca – Céfalo y Pocris
• David-Augustin de Brueys & Jean Palaprat – Le Muet
• John Dryden – King Arthur, or the British Worthy (a "semi-opera" with music by Henry Purcell)
• Thomas d'Urfey – Love for Money
• Joseph Harris – The Mistakes^[1]
• William Mountfort – Greenwich Park
• Archibald Pitcairne and others – The Phanaticks (first published as The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation, posthumously as "by a Scots Gentleman", 1722)^[2]
• Jean Racine – Athalie
• John Smith (probable author – issued anonymously) – Win Her and Take Her, or Old Fools will be Medling: a comedy^[3]
• Thomas Southerne – The Wives' Excuse, or Cuckolds Make Themselves
• John Wilson – Belphegor, or the Marriage of the Devil published

Births

• February 3 – George Lillo, English dramatist and actor (died 1739)
• February 27 – Edward Cave, English printer and publisher (died 1754)
• April 9 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classicist (died 1761)
• October 18 – John Leland, English theologian (died 1766)

Deaths

• June 26 – John Flavel, English Presbyterian religious writer (born 1627)
• July 30 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and critic (born 1639)
• October 8 – Thomas Barlow, English religious writer and bishop (born 1609)
• October 10 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (born 1613)
• December 8 – Richard Baxter, English Puritan religious leader and writer (born 1615)
• Probable year of death – Samuel Pordage, English poet and cleric (born 1633)

References

1. "Bibliography". The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Vol. 8, The Age of Dryden. 1907–21. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
2. Pitcairne, Archibald (2012). MacQueen, John, ed. The Phanaticks. Woodbridge: Scottish Text Society. ISBN 978-1-89797-635-7.
3. "Underhill, Cave" in Dictionary of National Biography.