- 1671 in literature
The year 1671 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
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Nell Gwyn retires from the stage.
*On November 9, theDuke's Company open their new venue, theDorset Garden Theatre .New books
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Edward Bagshaw (attr.) - "The Life and Death of MrVavasor Powell "
*John Josselyn - "New England's Rarities, discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country" (London)
*Gottfried Leibniz - "Hypothesis Physica Nova (`New Physical Hypothesis')"
*Arnoldus Montanus - "De nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld of Beschryving van America (The Unknown New World or Description of the Continent America)"
*Isaac Newton - "Method of Fluxions "
*Marie-Catherine de Villedieu - "Les Amours des Grands Hommes"New drama
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Aphra Behn - "The Amorous Prince" (adapted fromRobert Davenport 's "The City Nightcap")
*Pierre Corneille - "Tite et Bérénice"
*John Crowne - "Juliana, or the Princess of Poland"
*John Dryden - "The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery"
*Edward Howard - "The Six Days' Adventure, or the New Utopia"
*Edward Ravenscroft - "Mamamouchi"
*Elkanah Settle - "Cambyses"
*George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham & others - "The Rehearsal"
*William Wycherley - "Love in a Wood"Poetry
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John Milton - "Samson Agonistes "Births
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April 6 -Jean-Baptiste Rousseau , poet (born1741 )
*June 11 -Colley Cibber (born1757 )Deaths
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July 14 -Méric Casaubon , classical scholar (born1599 )
*December 28 -Johann Friedrich Gronovius , critic (born1611 )
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