1682 in literature

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See also: 1681 in literature, other events of 1682, 1683 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Merger of the two theatre companies created at the English Restoration in 1660; beginning of a golden period for drama

[edit] New books

• Mary Rowlandson - Narrative of the Captivity
• John Bunyan - The Holy War

[edit] New drama

• MacFlecknoe - John Dryden
• Venice Preserv'd - Thomas Otway

[edit] Poetry

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

[edit] Births

• date unknown - Jacopo Facciolati, lexicographer and philologist (died 1769)

[edit] Deaths

• March - Francis Sempill, poet and wit (born c.1616)
• October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne (born 1605)