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1682 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1682.

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Events

  • In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company of actors.
  • In Paris, the Bibliothèque Mazarine reopens at the Collège des Quatre-Nations.
  • In Japan, Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男, Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko, "The Man Who Spent His Life in Love") inaugurates what becomes known as ukiyo-zōshi ("books of the floating world"), the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction.

    • Prose

  • John Bunyan – The Holy War
  • Francisco Nunez de Cepeda – Idea del buen pastor representada en Empresas sacras
  • William Penn
  • Frame of Government of Pennsylvania
  • Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims
  • Mary Rowlandson – Narrative of the Captivity
  • Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴) – The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男 Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko)
  • Bulstrode Whitelocke – Memorials of the English Affairs from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I (Puritan viewpoint)

    • Drama

  • John Banks – The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex
  • John Dryden – MacFlecknoe
  • John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee – The Duke of Guise
  • Thomas d'Urfey
  • The Injured Princess (adapted from Cymbeline)
  • The Royalist
  • Thomas Otway – Venice Preserv'd
  • William Shakespeare adapted by Nahum Tate – Coriolanus
  • Thomas Southerne – The Persian Prince, or the Loyal Brother
  • Pedro Calderon de la Barca – Verdadera V parte de comedias

    • Poetry

  • Nahum Tate (probable) – Absalom and Achitophel, part 2

    • Births

  • Unknown date – Jacopo Facciolati, Paduan lexicographer and philologist (died 1769)

    • Deaths

  • March 12 – Francis Sempill, Scottish poet and wit (born c. 1616)
  • October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne, English polymath and poet (born 1605)
  • November 14 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678-1681 and travel writer (born 1619)
  • Unknown dates
  • Philip Hunton, English clergyman and political writer (born c. 1600)
  • Madeleine Patin, French moralist writer (born 1610)
  • Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Chilean writer and soldier (born 1607 in literature)

    • References

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