1678 in literature

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The year 1678 in literature involved some significant events.

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  • Thomas Otway, escaping from an unhappy love affair, obtains a commission in the army.
  • Printer Joseph Moxon becomes the first tradesman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

[edit] New books

[edit] New drama

  • John Banks - The Destruction of Troy
  • Aphra Behn - Sir Patient Fancy
  • William Chamberlain - Wits Led by the Nose, or a Poet's Revenge published
  • John Dryden
  • Thomas d'Urfey
    • Trick for Trick
    • Squire Old-Sapp, or the Night Adventurers
  • Edward Howard - The Man of Newmarket
  • John Learned
    • The Counterfeits
    • The Rambling Justice
  • Thomas Otway - Friendship in Fashion
  • Samuel Pordage - The Siege of Babylon
  • Edward Ravenscroft
    • The English Lawyer (adapted from George Ruggle's Latin play Ignoramus)
    • Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia (adapted from Shakespeare's play)
  • Thomas Shadwell
    • The History of Timon of Athens the Man-Hater
    • A True Widow
  • Nahum Tate - Brutus of Alba

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