1693 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New Drama 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• July 29 - Anthony Wood is condemned in the vice-chancellor's court for certain libels against the late Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon; he is fined, banished from the university until he recants, and the offending pages are burned.
• Joseph Addison addresses an early poem to John Dryden.

[edit] New books

• The Impartial Critick by John Dennis
• Manuductio ad lectionem Scripturae Sacrae by August Hermann Francke

[edit] New Drama

• The Old Bachelor by William Congreve
• The Double Dealer by William Congreve

[edit] Deaths

• April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French memoirist (born 1618)
• May 25 - Madame de La Fayette, French writer (born 1634)