1670 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1670.

—Monsieur Jourdain, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

Events

  • January – Françoise-Marguerite, daughter of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, marries the Comte de Grignan.
  • August 18 – John Dryden is appointed as historiographer royal in England.
  • September 20 – Production of Mrs Aphra Behn's first play, The Forced Marriage, at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London by the Duke's Company, with Thomas Betterton in the lead.
  • October 14 – Première of Molière's comedy Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by his troupe (with himself in the title rôle) before the French royal court at the Château de Chambord with incidental music by Jean-Baptiste Lully.
  • November 21 – Première of Racine's tragedy Berenice by the Comédiens du Roi at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
  • First printed edition of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love (written in the late 14th century), edited by Serenus de Cressy, the earliest known surviving book written in English by a woman.
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