1690 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1690.Events
Prose
- Nicholas Barbon – A Discourse of Trade
- Pierre Bayle – Avis important aux réfugiés
- Sir Thomas Browne – A Letter to a Friend
- Antoine Furetière – Dictionnaire universel
- John Locke
- *An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- *Two Treatises of Government
- Samuel Pepys – Memoires of the Navy
- Baro Urbigerus – Aphorismi Urbigerani
Drama
- John Bancroft – King Edward III, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March
- Aphra Behn – The Widow Ranter
- Thomas Betterton – The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian
- Edmé Boursault – Esope à la ville
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – Mr. Anthony
- John Crowne – The English Friar, or the Town Sparks
- John Dryden
- *Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias
- *Don Sebastian
- George Powell
- *Alphonso, King of Naples
- *The Treacherous Brothers
- Elkanah Settle – Distress'd Innocence, or The Princess of Persia
- Thomas Shadwell – The Scourers
- Thomas Southerne – Sir Anthony Love
- "W. C." – The Rape Reveng'd, or the Spanish Revolution
Poetry
- Thomas D'Urfey:
- *Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster
- *New Poems
- See also 1690 in poetry
- Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza – Obras líricas y cómicas, divinas y humanas
Births
- February 3 – Richard Rawlinson, English antiquary and cleric
- September 12 – Peter Dens, Netherlandish theologian
- 1689/90 – Susanna Highmore, English poet
Deaths
- March 21 – Henry Teonge, English diarist and cleric
- May 5 – Theodore Haak, German-born English translator and natural philosopher
- May 12 – John Rushworth, English author of Historical Collections
- October 3 – Robert Barclay, Scottish Quaker writer
- October 25 – Cornelius Hazart, Dutch Jesuit controversialist
- Unknown date – Franciscus Plante, Dutch poet
- Probable year of death – Jeremias Felbinger, German writer, teacher and lexicographer
