1680 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1680. Events February – Thomas Otway's blank verse tragedy The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage is premiered in London. The spring/summer production of Nathaniel Lee's Theodosius at Dorset Garden features Henry Purcell's earliest theatre music. August 8 – The Comédie-Française is founded by decree of King Louis XIV of France to merge the two Parisian acting troupes of the time, those of the Guénégaud Theatre and the Hôtel de Bourgogne. unknown dates The poem-book Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe is transcribed by Ruairí Ó hUiginn of Sligo at the command of Cormac Ó Neill. Innerpeffray Library, the oldest known (and surviving) public (lending) library in Scotland, is established. New books Prose John Bunyan – The Life and Death of Mr. Badman Gilbert Burnet – Some Passages of the Life and Death of...John Earl of Rochester Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz – Neptuno alegórico Pedro Cubero – Peregrinación del mundo Pu Songling – Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (in manuscript only) Sir Robert Filmer – Patriarcha published (written 1642)