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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1695.




Events


April – The Parliament of England decides not to renew the Licensing Order of 1643, thus effectively abolishing most press censorship.
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After twelve years of de facto theatrical monopoly in London, the senior actors of the mismanaged United Company break away to form a rival cooperative company led by Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle. This makes a brilliant start with the première on April 30 of William Congreve's comedy Love for Love, at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Antoine Le Maistre and his brother Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy complete their translation of the Catholic Bible into French (the Bible de Port-Royal).
Wren Library, Cambridge, the library of Trinity College, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.




New books






= Prose

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Mary Astell (anonymous) – A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest
Charles Blount – Miscellaneous Works (ed. Charles Gildon)
Gilbert Burnet – An Essay on the Memory of the Late Queen (see 1694 in literature, as many memorials were written to Mary II of England)
Jeremy Collier – Miscellanies upon Moral Subjects: The second part
John Dennis – The Court of Death
John Dryden – De Arte Graphica (trans. of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy)
Laurence Echard – The Roman History (vol. I)
"N. H." – The Ladies Dictionary, being a general entertainment of the fair-sex: a work never attempted before in English (published by John Dunton)
Nicolaas Heinsius the Younger – The Delightful Adventures and Wonderful Life of Mirandor (Den vermakelijken Avanturier)
William Laud – The History of the Troubles and Tryal of William Laud
John Locke
Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money
The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures
A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity (reply to John Edwards)
John Norris – Letters Concerning the Love of God (letters to Mary Astell)
Sir William Petty – Quantulumcunque Concerning Money (published posthumously)
John Phillips – A Reflection on Our Modern Poetry
Sujan Rai – Khulasat-ut-Tawarikh
Robert South – Tritheism (vs. William Sherlock)
Sir William Temple – An Introduction to the History of England
Lionel Wafer – A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America
Ned Ward – Female Policy Detected; or, The Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open
Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou (compiled and edited) – Guwen Guanzhi, anthology of more than 200 works from Warring States period to Ming dynasty




= Children

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Charles Perrault – Histoires ou contes du temps passé. Les Contes de ma Mère l’Oye (Tales and stories of the past with morals. Tales of Mother Goose)




= Drama

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John Banks – Cyrus the Great
Catherine Trotter Cockburn – Agnes de Castro
William Congreve – Love for Love
Robert Gould – The Rival Sisters
George Granville – The She-Gallants
Charles Hopkins – Pyrrhus King of Epirus
Peter Anthony Motteux – The Loves of Mars and Venus
George Powell – Bonduca, or the British Heroine
Elkanah Settle – Philaster; or, Love Lies A-Bleeding (adapted from Fletcher's Philaster)
Thomas Scott – The Mock Marriage
Thomas Southerne – Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: a tragedy (adapted from Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko)
Ariadne – She Ventures and He Wins




= Poetry

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Joseph Addison – A Poem to His Majesty
Richard Blackmore – Prince Arthur
Colley Cibber – A Poem on the Death of our Late Sovereign Lady, Queen Mary
William Congreve – The Mourning Muse of Alexas: A pastoral (on Mary II)
John Milton – The Poetical Works of Mr John Milton (ed. Patrick Hume)
Matthew Prior – An English Ballad: In answer to Mr Despreaux's Pindarique ode on the taking of Namure
Richard Steele – The Procession: A poem on Her Majesties funeral
See also 1695 in poetry




Births


April 8 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (died 1723)
September 20 – Hedvig Catharina Lillie, Swedish salonnière (died 1745)




Deaths


February 7 – Dorothy Osborne (Lady Temple), English letter writer (born 1627)
April 13 – Jean de la Fontaine, French poet and fabulist (born 1621)
April 17 – Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican poet (born 1651; plague)
April 23 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh metaphysical poet (born 1622)
June 11 – André Félibien, French court historian (born 1619)
August 12 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist (born 1610)
October – Sir William Killigrew, English playwright and courtier (born 1606)
November 28 – Anthony Wood, English antiquary (born 1632)




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