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1683 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1683.

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Events

  • May 17 – Jordaan Luchtmans, the predecessor of Brill Publishers, is registered as a bookseller by the Leiden booksellers' guild.
  • May 25 – Lancelot Addison is appointed Dean of Lichfield.
  • June 26 – Madame de La Fayette is widowed.
  • August/September – John Locke flees to the Netherlands, under suspicion of involvement in the Rye House Plot in England.
  • November 4 – Marriage of André Dacier and Anne Lefèvre in Paris.
  • The Protestant Academy of Saumur is repressed by King Louis XIV of France.
  • A public library is first recorded at Kirkwall on Orkney, the oldest known in Scotland.

    • Fiction

  • Alexander Oldys (?) – The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore
  • "Abbé du Prat" (pseudonym) – Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in her Smock (Vénus dans le cloître, ou la Religieuse en chemise)

    • Drama

  • Joshua Barnes – Landgartha, or the Amazon Queen of Denmark and Norway
  • Chikamatsu Monzaemon – Yotsugi Soga ("The Soga Successors" or "The Soga Heir")
  • John Crowne – City Politiques
  • John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee – The Duke of Guise
  • Sor Juana – Los empeños de una casa ("The Trials of a Noble House")
  • Thomas Otway – The Atheist
  • Edward Ravenscroft – Dame Dobson, or the Cunning Woman
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – Los empeños de una casa
  • Pedro Calderon de la Barca – El pintor de su deshonra

    • Poetry

  • Robert Gould – Love Given O'er: Or a Satyr on the Inconstancy of Woman

    • Non-fiction

  • "R.B." (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch), comp. – Two Journeys to Jerusalem
  • John Dryden – Plutarch (one of the first biographies in the English language)
  • Melchor Fuster – Elogio evangélico a San José
  • Joseph Moxon – Mechanick Exercises
  • John Pordage – Theologia Mystica
  • Dr. Thomas Sydenham – Tractatus de podagra et hydrope

    • Births

  • April 3 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (died 1749)
  • December 27 – Conyers Middleton, English controversialist and cleric (died 1750)

    • Deaths

  • January 15 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (born 1609)
  • March 19 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist and manager (born 1612)
  • August 24 – John Owen, English theologian (born 1616)
  • October 20 – Marie-Catherine de Villedieu, French novelist and dramatist (born 1640)
  • November 18 – Innokentiy Gizel, Ukrainian historian (born c. 1600)
  • December 15 – Izaak Walton, English writer and biographer (born 1593)

    • References

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