1692 in literature
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The year 1692 in literature involved some significant events.
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- Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents.
- On December 9, playwright William Mountfort is attacked in a London street and stabbed; he dies the next day.
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[edit] New books
- Richard Ames - The Jacobite Coventicle, Sylvia's Complaint, of Her Sexes Unhappiness (in answer to Robert Gould)
- Richard Baxter - Paraphrase on the Psalms of David
- Richard Bentley - three "confutations" of Atheism and The Folly of Atheism, and (what is now called) Deism
- Gilbert Burnet - A Discourse on the Pastoral Care
- William Congreve - Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd: A novel
- Anne Conway - The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy
- John Dryden - Eleonara
- Roger L'Estrange - Fables, of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists
- Ihara Saikaku - Reckonings That Carry Men Through the World
- Ben Jonson - the third folio collection of the Works
- John Locke - Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money
- George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax - Maxims of State
- Sir William Temple - Memoirs of What Past in Christendom: From the war begun in 1672 to the peace concluded 1679
- James Tyrrell - A Brief Disquisition of the Law of Nature
- William Walsh - Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant
- Anthony à Wood - Athenae Oxonienses, vol. ii.
[edit] Printed plays
- Nicholas Brady - The Rape, or The Innocent Impostors
- John Dryden (with Thomas Southerne) - Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero
- Thomas D'Urfey - The Marriage-Hater Match'd
- Joe Haynes - A Fatal Mistake
- Thomas Southerne - The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather Than Fail
[edit] Plays
- John Crowne - Regulus
- Nicholas Brady - The Rape, or the Innocent Imposters
- Elkanah Settle - The Fairy Queen, an adptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, with music by Henry Purcell
- Thomas Shadwell - The Volunteers
[edit] Poetry
- John Dennis, Poems in Burleseque
- Thomas Fletcher - Poems on Several Occasions
- Charles Gildon - Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions
[edit] Births
- February 29 - John Byrom, poet (died 1763)
- November 6 - Louis Racine, poet and son of Jean Racine (died 1763)
- Joseph Butler - theologian of the Church of England
[edit] Deaths
- February - Sir George Etherege, dramatist (born c.1635)
- May - Nathaniel Lee, dramatist (born c.1653)
- May - Elias Ashmole, antiquarian.
- May 25 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, novelist (born 1634)
- November 19 - Thomas Shadwell, dramatist (born c.1642)
- December 9 - William Mountfort, dramatist and actor (born c.1664)
