1677 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Roger Morrice begins his Entring Book

[edit] New books

• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - Treatise of the Art of War

[edit] New drama

• Aphra Behn - The Rover
• Nathaniel Lee - The Rival Queens
• Jean Racine - Phèdre

[edit] Births

• August 25 - Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy, theologian (died 1753)
• date unknown - Elizabeth Wardlaw, poet (born 1727)

[edit] Deaths

• February 21 - Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (born 1632)
• May 24 - Anders Bording, poet and journalist (born 1619)
• September 11 - James Harrington (born 1611)
• October 14 - Francis Glisson, medical writer (born 1597)
• date unknown
  • Jacques de Coras, poet (born 1630)