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It is set in 1558–1559 and an early example of a <a href="/wiki/Psychological_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychological novel">psychological novel</a>.</li> <li>November – The English printer <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Moxon" title="Joseph Moxon">Joseph Moxon</a> becomes the first tradesman to be elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a> of London.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_books">New books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1678_in_literature&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: New books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prose">Prose</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1678_in_literature&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Prose"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manuel_Ambrosio_de_Filguera&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manuel Ambrosio de Filguera (page does not exist)">Manuel Ambrosio de Filguera</a> – <i><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">Si sea lícito hacer los autos sacramentales en las iglesias</i></span></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Barret_(divine)" title="John Barret (divine)">John Barret</a> – <i>The Christian Temper, or, A Discourse Concerning the Nature and Properties of the Graces of Sanctification</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Boehme" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacob Boehme">Jacob Boehme</a> – <i><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Mysterium Magnum</i></span>, <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">oder Erkärung über das Erste Buch Mosis</i></span></i> (Amsterdam & Frankfurt; contains a portrait of Boehme by N. van Werd)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bunyan" title="John Bunyan">John Bunyan</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress" title="The Pilgrim's Progress">The Pilgrim's Progress</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Cudworth" title="Ralph Cudworth">Ralph Cudworth</a> – <i>The True Intellectual System of the Universe</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madame_de_La_Fayette" title="Madame de La Fayette">Madame de La Fayette</a> (anonymously) – <i><a href="/wiki/La_Princesse_de_Cl%C3%A8ves" title="La Princesse de Clèves">La Princesse de Clèves</a></i></li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Herbert,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet">Thomas Herbert</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Threnodia_Carolina" class="mw-redirect" title="Threnodia Carolina">Threnodia Carolina</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Thomas Hobbes</a> – <i>Decameron Physiologicum</i><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Josiah King – <i>The Examination and Trial of Old Father Christmas Together with his Clearing by the Jury</i><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The <a href="/wiki/Mowing-Devil" title="Mowing-Devil">Mowing-Devil</a>: or, Strange News out of Hartford-Shire</i> (a woodcut showing what is alleged to be the first <a href="/wiki/Crop_circle" title="Crop circle">crop circle</a>)</li> <li><i>The Works of Geber, Englished by Richard Russell</i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Rymer" title="Thomas Rymer">Thomas Rymer</a> – <i>The Tragedies of the Last Age Considered</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Spon" title="Jacob Spon">Jacob Spon</a> – <i>Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grèce et du Levant</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aernout_van_Overbeke" title="Aernout van Overbeke">Aernout van Overbeke</a> – <i>De rym-wercken</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drama">Drama</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1678_in_literature&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Anonymous <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Actio_Curiosa" title="Actio Curiosa">Actio Curiosa</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Banks_(playwright)" title="John Banks (playwright)">John Banks</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Destruction_of_Troy" title="The Destruction of Troy">The Destruction of Troy</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aphra_Behn" title="Aphra Behn">Aphra Behn</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Sir_Patient_Fancy" title="Sir Patient Fancy">Sir Patient Fancy</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Chamberlayne_(poet)" title="William Chamberlayne (poet)">William Chamberlayne</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Wits_Led_by_the_Nose" title="Wits Led by the Nose">Wits Led by the Nose, or a Poet's Revenge</a></i> published</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Corneille" title="Thomas Corneille">Thomas Corneille</a> – <i>Le Comte d'Essex</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/All_for_Love_(play)" title="All for Love (play)">All for Love</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Kind_Keeper" class="mw-redirect" title="The Kind Keeper">The Kind Keeper</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_d%27Urfey" title="Thomas d'Urfey">Thomas d'Urfey</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Trick_for_Trick_(1678_play)" title="Trick for Trick (1678 play)">Trick for Trick</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Squire_Oldsapp" title="Squire Oldsapp">Squire Oldsapp</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Howard_(playwright)" title="Edward Howard (playwright)">Edward Howard</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Man_of_Newmarket" title="The Man of Newmarket">The Man of Newmarket</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Lee" title="Nathaniel Lee">Nathaniel Lee</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Mithridates,_King_of_Pontus" title="Mithridates, King of Pontus">Mithridates, King of Pontus</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Leanerd" title="John Leanerd">John Leanerd</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Counterfeits" title="The Counterfeits">The Counterfeits</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rambling_Justice" title="The Rambling Justice">The Rambling Justice</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Otway" title="Thomas Otway">Thomas Otway</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Friendship_in_Fashion" title="Friendship in Fashion">Friendship in Fashion</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Pordage" title="Samuel Pordage">Samuel Pordage</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Siege_of_Babylon" title="The Siege of Babylon">The Siege of Babylon</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Ravenscroft" title="Edward Ravenscroft">Edward Ravenscroft</a> – <i>The English Lawyer</i> (adapted from George Ruggle's Latin play <i>Ignoramus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Rawlins" title="Thomas Rawlins">Thomas Rawlins</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Tunbridge_Wells_(play)" title="Tunbridge Wells (play)">Tunbridge Wells</a></i> <ul><li><i>Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia</i> (adapted from <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>'s play)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Shadwell" title="Thomas Shadwell">Thomas Shadwell</a> <ul><li><i>The History of Timon of Athens the Man-Hater</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_True_Widow" title="A True Widow">A True Widow</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahum_Tate" title="Nahum Tate">Nahum Tate</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Brutus_of_Alba_(play)" title="Brutus of Alba (play)">Brutus of Alba</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1678_in_literature&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Bradstreet" title="Anne Bradstreet">Anne Bradstreet</a> – <i>Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning</i> (posthumously published)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(poet)" title="Samuel Butler (poet)">Samuel Butler</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Hudibras" title="Hudibras">Hudibras</a></i>, Part 3</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorthe_Engelbrechtsdatter" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter">Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter</a> – <i><span title="Norwegian-language text"><i lang="no">Själens aandelige Sangoffer</i></span> ("The Souls Spiritual Offering of Song")</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1678_in_literature&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Births"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_10" title="January 10">January 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Gabriel_Antoine" title="Paul Gabriel Antoine">Paul Gabriel Antoine</a>, French theologian (died <a href="/wiki/1743_in_literature" title="1743 in literature">1743</a>)</li> <li>July – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hearne_(antiquarian)" title="Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)">Thomas Hearne</a>, editor of medieval manuscripts (died <a href="/wiki/1735_in_literature" title="1735 in literature">1735</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_14" title="December 14">December 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Neal" title="Daniel Neal">Daniel Neal</a>, English historian (died <a href="/wiki/1743_in_literature" title="1743 in literature">1743</a>)</li> <li><i>Unknown dates</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sherlock" title="Thomas Sherlock">Thomas Sherlock</a>, English religious writer and bishop (died <a href="/wiki/1761_in_literature" title="1761 in literature">1761</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wogan_(religious_writer)" title="William Wogan (religious writer)">William Wogan</a>, Welsh religious writer in English (died <a href="/wiki/1758_in_literature" title="1758 in literature">1758</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deaths">Deaths</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1678_in_literature&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Deaths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_16" title="January 16">January 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Madeleine_de_Souvr%C3%A9,_marquise_de_Sabl%C3%A9" title="Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé">Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé</a>, French writer and salonnière (born <a href="/wiki/1599_in_literature" title="1599 in literature">1599</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_10" title="March 10">March 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jean_de_Launoy" title="Jean de Launoy">Jean de Launoy</a>, French historian (born <a href="/wiki/1603_in_literature" title="1603 in literature">1603</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_12" title="April 12">April 12</a> – Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Stanley_(author)" title="Thomas Stanley (author)">Thomas Stanley</a>, English poet, writer and translator (born <a href="/wiki/1625_in_literature" title="1625 in literature">1625</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_4" title="May 4">May 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Woodhead" title="Abraham Woodhead">Abraham Woodhead</a>, English Catholic writer (born <a href="/wiki/1609_in_literature" title="1609 in literature">1609</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_14" title="May 14">May 14</a> or <a href="/wiki/May_15" title="May 15">15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Anna_Maria_van_Schurman" title="Anna Maria van Schurman">Anna Maria van Schurman</a>, Dutch poet and scholar (born <a href="/wiki/1607_in_literature" title="1607 in literature">1607</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_16" title="August 16">August 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Marvell" title="Andrew Marvell">Andrew Marvell</a>, English poet and politician (born <a href="/wiki/1621_in_literature" title="1621 in literature">1621</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_17" title="August 17">August 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Guillaume_Herincx" title="Guillaume Herincx">Guillaume Herincx</a>, Netherlandish theologian (born <a href="/wiki/1621_in_literature" title="1621 in literature">1621</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_21" title="November 21">November 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Robert_Thoroton" title="Robert Thoroton">Robert Thoroton</a>, English antiquary (born <a href="/wiki/1623_in_literature" title="1623 in literature">1623</a>)</li> <li><i>Unknown date</i> – <a href="/wiki/Theophilus_Gale" title="Theophilus Gale">Theophilus Gale</a>, English theologian (born <a href="/wiki/1628_in_literature" title="1628 in literature">1628</a>)</li> <li><i>Probable date</i> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Flecknoe" title="Richard Flecknoe">Richard Flecknoe</a> English dramatist and poet (born c. 1600)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1678_in_literature&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The copy for the first edition of the First Part of <i>The Pilgrim's Progress</i> was entered in the Stationers' Register on 22 December 1677 ... The book was licensed and entered in the Term Catalogue for the following Hilary Term, 18 February 1678; this date would customarily indicate the time of publication, or only slightly precede it" [John Bunyan, <i>The Pilgrim's Progress</i>, James Blanton Wharey and Roger Sharrock, eds., Second Edition, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), xxi].</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFThomas_Hobbes1997" class="citation book cs1">Thomas Hobbes (May 1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Sjq3bKL2Hn8C&pg=PA1"><i>A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England</i></a>. 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