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1668 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1668.

Contents

Events

  • Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler goes into its fourth edition.
  • John Dryden signs a contract to produce three plays a year for the King's Company.

    • Prose

  • Juan Caramuel – Primus calamus
  • Meric Casaubon – Of Credulity and Incredulity
  • Josiah Child – Brief Observations concerning Trade and the Interest of Money
  • Jean Claude – Réponse au livre de P. Nouet sur l'eucharistie
  • Jan Comenius – The Way of Light
  • John Dryden – Essay of Dramatick Poesie
  • Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman – Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing
  • Richard Flecknoe – Sir William Davenant's Voyage to the Other World
  • Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen – Simplicius Simplicissimus (first major novel in the German language, dated 1669 but probably published this year)
  • Johannes Hevelius – Cometographia
  • Peter Heylin – Cyprianus Anglicanus (biography of William Laud)
  • Urban Hjärne – Stratonice (completed)
  • Adriaan Koerbagh – Een Bloemhof
  • Henry Neville – The Isle of Pines
  • Francisco Santos – Periquillo el de las gallineras
  • John Wilkins – An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language

    • Drama

  • Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
  • Tryphon (performed)
  • Henry V (published)
  • Mustapha (published)
  • Margaret Cavendish – Plays, Never Before Printed, Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princess, the Duchess of Newcastle (closet dramas)
  • Sir William Davenant – The Man's the Master (a translation of Paul Scarron's Jodelet, ou le maître valet)
  • John Dryden – An Evening's Love
  • George Etherege – She Would if She Could
  • Sir Robert Howard – The Great Favourite or the Duke of Lerma
  • Molière
  • L'Avare (The Miser)
  • George Dandin ou le Mari confondu
  • Sir Charles Sedley – The Mulberry-Garden
  • Thomas Shadwell – The Sullen Lovers

    • Poetry

  • Abraham Cowley – Poemata Latina (posthumous)
  • Sir John Denham – Poems and Translations
  • Georg Stiernhielm – Musæ Suethizantes

    • Births

  • May 8 – Alain-René Lesage, French novelist and playwright (died 1747)
  • September – Joseph Bingham, scholar (died 1723)
  • November (baptised) – Thomas Woolston, deist writer (died 1731)
  • November 11 – Johann Albert Fabricius (died 1736)
  • December 21 – Herman Boerhaave, humanist (died 1738)

    • Deaths

  • April 7 – Sir William Davenant, poet and playwright (born 1606)
  • May 21 – Josephus Adjutus, theologian (born c. 1602)
  • August 9 – Jakob Balde, Latinist poet and academic (born 1604)
  • November 17 – Joseph Alleine, Nonconformist writer (born 1634)
  • December 11 – Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla, actress (born 1633)
  • December 22 – Stephen Daye, first American printer (born 1594)
  • December 23 – Martin Baučer, Slovene historian (born 1595)

    • References

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