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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1667. ==Events== *January - Courtier Tobias Rustat creates the first endowment for the purchase of books for Cambridge University Library in England. *March 2 - Première of John Dryden's tragicomedy ''Secret Love, or The Maiden Queen'' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London where it is well received by an audience including King Charles II of England, his brother the Duke of York and Samuel Pepys.〔(Pepys' diary ), 2 March 1666. Project Gutenberg, accessed 2008-09-12.〕〔Saintsbury, George and Scott, Sir Walter (ed.) (1882). ''The Works of John Dryden'' 2. Edinburgh: William Paterson. pp. 414–16 & ff.〕 The cast includes Nell Gwyn in one of the first breeches roles in Restoration theatre and her lover Charles Hart. *April 15 - Edward Howard's play ''The Change of Crowns'' receives its première in London. Actor John Lacy improvises a few lines about influence-peddling at court, angering King Charles II, a member of the audience (as is Samuel Pepys). The theatre is closed for a time, and Lacy is jailed. *April 27 - The blind, impoverished, 58-year-old John Milton seals a contract (one of the first detailed contracts between author and printer known in England)〔 〕 for publication of ''Paradise Lost'' with London printer Samuel Simmons for an initial payment of £5.〔Equivalent to approximately £7,400 income in 2008. 〕 The first edition is published in October〔 and sells out in eighteen months.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Milton's Paradise Lost )〕 *July - English scholar and poet Edmund Castell is imprisoned for debt. *July 28 - For the second time in his life, playwright Thomas Porter mortally wounds an opponent (his friend Sir Henry Bellasis) in a duel, and is consequently forced to flee England.〔Pepys' diary.〕 *August 6 - Molière's satirical comedy ''Tartuffe'' receives its première in its revised form as ''L'Imposteur'' and is immediately banned.〔(Tout Molière (French) ). Accessed 27 February 2013.〕 *August 20 - Molière writes his ''Lettre sur la comédie de l'Imposteur'' in response to criticisms of ''Tartuffe''. *September 12 - Sir William Davenant's adaptation of the old play ''Greene's Tu Quoque'' receives its première. *November - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, is impeached by Parliament and forced into exile in France, where he spends the rest of his life working on his history of the English Civil War. *November 7 - ''The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island'', an adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Tempest'' by John Dryden and Sir William Davenant, receives its première by the Duke's Company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London; it becomes "the most frequently revived play of the entire Restoration". *The Roman Catholic Church places the works of René Descartes on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. *Elias Ashmole presents the library of John Tradescant to the University of Oxford. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1667 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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