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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1679.

Events

April 30 – John Locke, returning to England from France, moves into Thanet House in London.^[1]
June – Nathaniel Lee's play The Massacre at Paris (about the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572, as was Christopher Marlowe's play of the same title) is suppressed by King Charles II of England as anti-French, the French being English allies at this time.
August – Thomas Otway returns to England from military service in the Netherlands.^[2]
October – Thomas Otway's The History and Fall of Caius Marius, his adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, is written. When performed the following year, it will drive Shakespeare's original off the stage for more than sixty years.^[3]
December 18 – Rose Alley ambuscade: John Dryden is set upon by three assailants in London, thought to have been instigated by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester in retaliation for an attack on "want of wit" in his poetry in The Essay on Satire (nominally by Dryden's patron, the poet John Sheffield, Earl of Musgrave, but probably with input from Dryden).^[4]
unknown dates
- Étienne Baluze becomes almoner to King Louis XIV of France.^[5]
- Pu Songling probably compiles most of his Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

New books

Prose

Charles Blount – Anima Mundi
Jean de La Fontaine – The Fables of Bidpai

Drama

Beaumont and Fletcher – Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, the second folio
John Bancroft – Sertorius
Aphra Behn
- The Feigned Courtesans
- The Young King
John Crowne – The Ambitious Statesman
Thomas D'Urfey – The Virtuous Wife
John Dryden
- Oedipus (adapted from Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with Nathaniel Lee, published)
- Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too Late (adapted from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida)
Nathaniel Lee
- Caesar Borgia
- The Massacre of Paris
Thomas Otway – The History and Fall of Caius Marius
Jacques Pradon – La Troade
Thomas Shadwell
- A True Widow
- The Woman Captain

Poetry

"Ephelia" (Mary Villiers?) – Female Poems...by Ephelia

Births

January 24 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (died 1745)
August 16 – Catherine Trotter Cockburn, English novelist, dramatist and philosopher (died 1749)
September 11 – Thomas Parnell, Irish poet and cleric (died 1718)
September 24 – Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, Spanish poet and soldier (died 1750)
September 26 – Johann Gottlob Carpzov, German Biblical scholar (died 1767)
October 26 – Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen, German printer (died c. 1750)
Unknown dates
- Charles Johnson, English dramatist and poet (died 1748)
- George Psalmanazar, French-born imposter and English writer (died 1763)
- Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (died 1734)
Probable year of birth – Penelope Aubin, English novelist and translator (died c. 1731)

Deaths

January 11 – Joannes Lucius, Dalmatian historian (born 1604)
February 5 – Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist (born 1587)
April 4 – Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, German poet (born 1616)
June 7 – Alice Curwen, English autobiographer and Quaker (born c. 1619)
August 27 – Jonas Moore, English mathematician and surveyor (born 1617)
October 12 – William Gurnall, English writer and cleric (born 1617)
October 26 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery Irish dramatist and soldier (born 1621)
December 4 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (born 1588)
Unknown dates
- Jacob Alting, Dutch philologist and theologian (born 1618)
- Johann Michael Vansleb, German theologian and linguist (born 1635)

References

^ Henry Richard Fox Bourne (1876). The Life of John Locke. H. S. King. p. 425.
^ Kerstin P. Warner (1982). Thomas Otway. Twayne Publishers. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-8057-6733-9.
^ The London Stage: 1660-1700, by E. L. Avery and A. H. Scouten. Southern Illinois University Press. 1968. p. 281.
^ Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2011). "18 December – Dryden mugged". Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature. London: Icon Books. pp. 479–80. ISBN 978-184831-247-0.
^ Hugh Chisholm; James Louis Garvin (1926). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Limited. p. 297.

[1] Henry Richard Fox Bourne (1876). The Life of John Locke. H. S. King. p. 425.

[Warner1982-2] Kerstin P. Warner (1982). Thomas Otway. Twayne Publishers. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-8057-6733-9.

[3] The London Stage: 1660-1700, by E. L. Avery and A. H. Scouten. Southern Illinois University Press. 1968. p. 281.

[4] Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2011). "18 December – Dryden mugged". Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature. London: Icon Books. pp. 479–80. ISBN 978-184831-247-0.

[5] Hugh Chisholm; James Louis Garvin (1926). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Limited. p. 297.

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+{{Use British English|date=July 2020}}
-This article lists some of the most significant events of the year '''1679 in literature'''.
+This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1679'''.
 ==Events==
+*[[April 30]] – [[John Locke]], returning to England from France, moves into Thanet House in London.<ref>{{cite book|author=Henry Richard Fox Bourne|title=The Life of John Locke|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLkYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA425|year=1876|publisher=H. S. King|pages=425}}</ref>
-*June - [[Nathaniel Lee]]'s play ''The Massacre at Paris'' (about the [[St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre]], as was [[Christopher Marlowe|Marlowe]]'s play of the same title) is suppressed by the [[Stuart Dynasty|Stuart]] regime as anti-French. (The French were English allies at the time.)
+*June – [[Nathaniel Lee]]'s play ''The Massacre at Paris'' (about the [[St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]] of 1572, as was [[Christopher Marlowe]]'s play of the same title) is suppressed by King [[Charles II of England]] as anti-French, the French being English allies at this time.
-*[[John Locke]] returns to England from France.
+*August – [[Thomas Otway]] returns to England from military service in the Netherlands.<ref name="Warner1982">{{cite book|author=Kerstin P. Warner|title=Thomas Otway|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9cdAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-6733-9|page=32}}</ref>
-*[[Étienne Baluze]] becomes almoner to King [[Louis XIV of France]].
+*October – Thomas Otway's ''The History and Fall of Caius Marius'', his adaptation of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', is written. When performed the following year, it will drive Shakespeare's original off the stage for more than sixty years.<ref>{{cite book|title=The London Stage: 1660-1700, by E. L. Avery and A. H. Scouten|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=11YNAQAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|page=281}}</ref>
-*[[Thomas Otway]] returns from military service in the Netherlands.
+*[[December 18]] – Rose Alley ambuscade: [[John Dryden]] is set upon by three assailants in London, thought to have been instigated by [[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester]] in retaliation for an attack on "want of wit" in his poetry in ''The Essay on Satire'' (nominally by Dryden's patron, the poet [[John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby|John Sheffield, Earl of Musgrave]], but probably with input from Dryden).<ref>{{cite book|first1=John|last1=Sutherland|authorlink1=John Sutherland (author)|first2=Stephen|last2=Fender|title=Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature|location=London|publisher=Icon Books|year=2011|isbn=978-184831-247-0|chapter=18 December &ndash; Dryden mugged|pages=479–80}}</ref>
+*''unknown dates''
+**[[Étienne Baluze]] becomes almoner to King [[Louis XIV of France]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Hugh Chisholm|author2=James Louis Garvin|title=The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRJGAQAAIAAJ|year=1926|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Limited|page=297}}</ref>
+**[[Pu Songling]] probably compiles most of his ''[[Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio]]''.
 ==New books==
+===Prose===
-*[[Beaumont and Fletcher]] - the [[Beaumont and Fletcher folios|second Beaumont and Fletcher folio]]
-*[[Charles Blount (deist)|Charles Blount]] - ''Anima Mundi''
+*[[Charles Blount (deist)|Charles Blount]] – ''Anima Mundi''
+*[[Jean de La Fontaine]] – ''The Fables of Bidpai''
-==New drama==
+===Drama===
+*[[Beaumont and Fletcher]] – ''Fifty Comedies and Tragedies'', the [[Beaumont and Fletcher folios#The second folio, 1679|second folio]]
-*[[Aphra Behn]] - ''The Feigned Courtesans''
+*[[John Bancroft (dramatist)|John Bancroft]] – ''[[Sertorius (1679 play)|Sertorius]]''
-**''The Young King''
+*[[Aphra Behn]]
-*[[John Crowne]] - ''The Ambitious Statesman, or the Loyal Favourite''
+**''[[The Feign'd Curtizans|The Feigned Courtesans]]''
-*[[John Dryden]] - ''Oedipus''
+**''[[The Young King (play)|The Young King]]''
-**''Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too Late'' (adapted from [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'')
-*[[Nathaniel Lee]] - ''Caesar Borgia''
+*[[John Crowne]] – ''[[The Ambitious Statesman]]''
+*[[Thomas D'Urfey]] –  ''[[The Virtuous Wife (play)|The Virtuous Wife]]''
-**''The Massacre at Paris''
+*[[John Dryden]]
-*[[Thomas Otway]] - ''The History and Fall of Caius Marius''
+**''[[Oedipus (Dryden play)|Oedipus]]'' (adapted from [[Sophocles]]' ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' with [[Nathaniel Lee]], published)
-*[[Jacques Pradon]] - ''La Troade''
+**''[[Troilus and Cressida (Dryden play)|Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too Late]]'' (adapted from [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'')
-*[[Thomas Shadwell]] - ''The Woman Captain''
+*[[Nathaniel Lee]]
+**''[[Caesar Borgia (play)|Caesar Borgia]]''
+**''[[The Massacre of Paris]]''
+*[[Thomas Otway]] – ''The History and Fall of Caius Marius''
+*[[Jacques Pradon]] – ''La Troade''
+*[[Thomas Shadwell]]
+**''[[A True Widow]]''
+**''[[The Woman Captain]]''
-==Poetry==
+===Poetry===
-*"Ephelia" ([[Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond|Mary Villiers]]?) - ''Female Poems...by Ephelia''
+*"Ephelia" ([[Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond|Mary Villiers]]?) – ''Female Poems...by Ephelia''
 ==Births==
-*[[January 24]] - [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)]] (died 1745)
+*[[January 24]] – [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)|Christian Wolff]], German philosopher (died [[1745 in literature|1745]])
+*[[August 16]] – [[Catherine Trotter Cockburn]], English novelist, dramatist and philosopher (died [[1749 in literature|1749]])
-*February - [[Abel Evans]], poet (died 1737)
-*[[August 16]] - [[Catherine Trotter Cockburn]], novelist, dramatist and philosopher (died 1749)
+*[[September 11]] – [[Thomas Parnell]], Irish poet and cleric (died [[1718 in literature|1718]])
-*[[September 11]] - [[Thomas Parnell]], clergyman and poet (died 1718)
+*[[September 24]] – [[Eugenio Gerardo Lobo]], Spanish poet and soldier (died [[1750 in literature|1750]])
-*[[September 24]] - [[Eugenio Gerardo Lobo]], soldier and poet (died 1750)
+*[[September 26]] – [[Johann Gottlob Carpzov]], German Biblical scholar (died [[1767 in literature|1767]])
-*[[September 26]] - [[Johann Gottlob Carpzov]], Biblical scholar (died 1767)
+*[[October 26]] – [[Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen]], German printer (died c. 1750)
+*''Unknown dates''
-*[[October 26]] - [[Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen]], printer (died c. 1750)
+**[[Charles Johnson (writer)|Charles Johnson]], English dramatist and poet (died [[1748 in literature|1748]])
-*''date unknown''
+**[[George Psalmanazar]], French-born imposter and English writer (died [[1763 in literature|1763]])
-**[[Charles Johnson (writer)|Charles Johnson]], dramatist (died 1748)
-**[[Robert Wodrow]], Scottish historian (died 1734)
+**[[Robert Wodrow]], Scottish historian (died [[1734 in literature|1734]])
-*''probable'' - [[Penelope Aubin]], novelist and translator (died c. 1731)
+*''Probable year of birth'' – [[Penelope Aubin]], English novelist and translator (died c. 1731)
 ==Deaths==
-*[[January 11]] - [[Joannes Lucius]], Dalmatian historian (born 1604)
+*[[January 11]] – [[Joannes Lucius]], Dalmatian historian (born [[1604 in literature|1604]])
-*[[February 5]] - [[Joost van den Vondel]], Dutch dramatist (born 1587)
+*[[February 5]] – [[Joost van den Vondel]], Dutch dramatist (born [[1587 in literature|1587]])
-*[[April 4]] - [[Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau]], German poet (born 1616)
+*[[April 4]] – [[Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau]], German poet (born [[1616 in literature|1616]])
-*[[October 12]] - [[William Gurnall]], religious writer (born 1617)
+*[[June 7]] – [[Alice Curwen]], English autobiographer and Quaker (born c. 1619)
-*[[October 26]] - [[Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery]] (born 1621)
+*[[August 27]] – [[Jonas Moore]], English mathematician and surveyor (born [[1617 in literature|1617]])
-*[[December 4]] - [[Thomas Hobbes]], philosopher (born 1588)
+*[[October 12]] – [[William Gurnall]], English writer and cleric (born [[1617 in literature|1617]])
+*[[October 26]] – [[Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery]] Irish dramatist and soldier (born [[1621 in literature|1621]])
-*''date unknown''
+*[[December 4]] – [[Thomas Hobbes]], English philosopher (born [[1588 in literature|1588]])
-**[[Jacob Alting]], philologist and theologian (born 1618)
+*''Unknown dates''
-**[[Johann Michael Vansleb]], theologian and linguist (born 1635)
+**[[Jacob Alting]], Dutch philologist and theologian (born [[1618 in literature|1618]])
+**[[Johann Michael Vansleb]], German theologian and linguist (born [[1635 in literature|1635]])
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
+{{Year in literature article categories}}
-[[Category:1679 books|*]]
+[[Category:1679 books| ]]
-[[Category:Years in literature]]
+[[Category:Years of the 17th century in literature]]