1676 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1676. Events March 2 – George Etherege's play The Man of Mode is given its first performance, in London. May 22 – Samuel Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House. December 11 – The first performance of William Wycherley's play The Plain Dealer is given in London. December – The German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz arrives in Hanover to take up a post as "councillor" and librarian to Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg. New books Prose Robert Barclay – Theses Theologiae Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – English-Adventures by a Person of Honor Charles Cotton – Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler) Ann, Lady Fanshawe – Memoir (of her deceased courtier husband, Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet) Domingo Fernández Navarrete – Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China (An Account of the Empire of China, Historical, Political, Moral, and Religious) Gabriel de Foigny – La Terre Australe connue (The Southern Land, Known) Thomas Tomkinson – Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism. Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler, 5th edition