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1684 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1684.

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Events

  • July 25 – English novelist and dramatist Mary Griffith marries merchant George Pix.
  • November 11 – English dramatist Nathaniel Lee is admitted to Bedlam Hospital for the insane.
  • John Banks' historical play The Island Queens, or the Death of Mary Queen of Scotland is banned from the stage; it is produced as The Albion Queens twenty years later (1704).
  • Pierre Bayle begins his journal of literary criticism, Nouvelles de la république des lettres.

    • Fiction

  • Aphra Behn – Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
  • John Bunyan – The Pilgrim's Progress, Second Part
  • Ihara Saikaku – The Great Mirror of Beauties

    • Non-fiction

  • Jakob Abbadie – Traité de la vérité de la religion chrétienne
  • Edward Phillips – Enchiridion linguae latinae
  • Christian Knorr von Rosenroth – Kabbala Denudata is finished to be published
  • Christopher Sandius – Bibliotheca antitrinitariorum
  • George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax – The Character of a Trimmer
  • Antonio de Solís y Rivadeneyra – Historia de la conquista de México

    • Plays

  • Jean de La Chapelle – Ajax
  • John Horne – Fortune's Task, or the Fickle Fair One
  • John Lacy – Sir Hercules Buffoon
  • Simon Neale – The Mistaken Beauty (adapted from Corneille)
  • Edward Ravenscroft – Dame Dobson, or the Cunning Woman
  • Thomas Southerne – The Disappointment, or the Mother of Fashion
  • Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  • Los cabellos de Absalón
  • Guárdate del agua mansa

    • Poetry

  • Aphra Behn – Poems upon Several Occasions

    • Births

  • February 21 – Justus van Effen, Dutch journalist writing also in French (died 1735)
  • October 16 – Peter Walkden, English diarist (died 1769)
  • December 3 – Ludvig Holberg, Danish/Norwegian essayist, philosopher and playwright (died 1754)

    • Deaths

  • April 1 – Roger Williams, English-born American theologian (born 1603)
  • October 1 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (born 1606)
  • December 7 – John Oldham, English satirical poet and translator (born 1653)
  • Unknown date – Francisco de Avellaneda, Spanish dramatist and poet (born c. 1625)

    • References

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