1676 in literature

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The year 1676 in literature involved some significant events.

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Robert Barclay - Theses Theologiae
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
Charles Cotton - Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler)
Gabriel de Foigney - The Adventures of James Sadeur and the Discovery of Australia
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics
Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler, 5th edition

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (?) - Zoroastres
Thomas Duffet - Beauty's Triumph (masque)
Thomas d'Urfey - The Fool Turned Critic
- - Madame Fickle
George Etherege - The Man of Mode
Nathaniel Lee - Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar
Thomas Otway - Don Carlos
Edward Ravenscroft - The Wrangling Lovers
Thomas Rawlins the younger - Tom Essence, or the Modish Wife
Elkanah Settle - The Conquest of China by the Tartars
- - Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa (adapted from a story by Madeleine de Scudéry)
Thomas Shadwell - The Virtuoso
William Wycherley - The Plain Dealer

June 21 - Anthony Collins, philosopher (died 1729)
July 4 - José de Cañizares, dramatist (died 1750)
date unknown
- Samuel Bownas, Quaker writer
- Alexander Selkirk, the original Robinson Crusoe (died 1721)