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The year 1695 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- Antoine Lemaistre and his brother Louis Isaac Lemaistre complete their translation of the Bible into the French language (the "Port-Royal version").
- After twelve years of de facto theatrical monopoly in London, the senior actors of the mismanaged United Company break away to form a rival cooperative company, led by Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle. The new company gets off to a brilliant start with the première of William Congreve's comedy Love for Love.
- The English House of Commons and the House of Lords are unable to agree on another renewal of the often-renewed Printing Act of 1662; London printers are freed from decades of legal restrictions.
New books
- Joseph Addison - A Poem to His Majesty
- Richard Blackmore - Prince Arthur
- Charles Blount - Miscellaneous Works (ed. Charles Gildon)
- Gilbert Burnet - An Essay on the Memory of the Late Queen (see 1694 in literature, as many memorials were written to Mary II of England)
- Colley Cibber - A Poem on the Death of our Late Sovereign Lady, Queen Mary
- Jeremy Collier - Miscellanies upon Moral Subjects: The second part
- William Congreve - The Mourning Muse of Alexas: A pastoral (on Mary II)
- John Dennis - The Court of Death
- John Dryden - De Arte Graphica (trans. of Charles-Alphonse du Fresnoy)
- Laurence Echard - The Roman History (vol. I)
- William Laud - The History of the Troubles and Tryal of William Laud
- John Locke - Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money
- - The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures
- - A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity (reply to John Edwards)
- John Milton - The Poetical Works of Mr John Milton (ed. Patrick Hume)
- John Norris - Letters Concerning the Love of God (letters to Mary Astell)
- Sir William Petty - Quantulumcunque Concerning Money (published posthumously)
- John Phillips - A Reflection on Our Modern Poetry
- Matthew Prior - An English Ballad: In answer to Mr Despreaux's Pindarique ode on the taking of Namure
- Robert South - Tritheism (vs. William Sherlock)
- Richard Steele - The Procession: A poem on Her Majesties funeral
- Sir William Temple - An Introduction to the History of England
- Ned Ward - Female Policy Detected; or, The Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open
New drama
- Anonymous ("a Young Lady") - She Ventures and He Wins
- John Banks - Cyrus the Great, or The Tragedy of Love
- Catherine Trotter Cockburn - Agnes de Castro
- William Congreve - Love for Love
- Robert Gould - The Rival Sisters
- George Granville - The She-Gallants
- Charles Hopkins - Pyrrhus King of Epirus
- Peter Anthony Motteux - The Loves of Mars and Venus
- George Powell - Bonduca, or the British Heroine
- Edward Ravenscroft - The Canterbury Guests; or, A Bargain Broken
- Elkanah Settle - Philaster; or, Love Lies A-Bleeding (adapted from Fletcher's
- Philaster)
- Thomas Scott - The Mock Marriage
Births
- April 8 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (died 1723)
Deaths
- February - Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple, letter writer (born 1627)
- April 13 - Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (born 1621)
- April 28 - Henry Vaughan, poet (born 1622)
- August 12 - Huang Zongxi, political theorist (born 1610)
- November 21 - Henry Purcell, composer (born 1659)
- November 28 - Anthony Wood, antiquarian (born 1632)
- date unknown - Sir William Killigrew, playwright (born 1606)
See also
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