1664 in literature

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The year 1664 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Sir William Davenant's "dramatic opera" Macbeth, adapted from Shakespeare's play, premiers on November 5.
Thomas Killigrew and the King's Company stage Killigrew's The Parson's Wedding with an all-female cast. (Killigrew attempts a similar all-female production of his play Thomaso, though the project is never realized.)

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle - Sociable Letters
Charles Cotton - The Compleat Gamester
René Descartes - Traité de l'homme et de la formation du foetus
John Evelyn - Sylva, or Discourse on Forest Trees
Richard Flecknoe - A Discourse of the English Stage
John Heydon - Psonthonpanchia
- Theomagia, Part 3
Lucy Hutchinson - Memoirs Of The Life Of Colonel Hutchinson
Thomas Killigrew - collected plays
William Killigrew - three plays in one folio volume
William Shakespeare - the second impression of the Third Folio, which added seven plays to the thirty-six of the First Folio and the Second: Pericles, Prince of Tyre and six works from the Shakespeare Apocrypha
Jeremy Taylor - Dissuasive from Popery
Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler, 3rd edition

Lodowick Carlell - Heraclius, Emperor of the East published (adapted from Corneille's Heraclius)
Pierre Corneille - Othon
Sir William Davenant - The Rivals (an adaptation of The Two Noble Kinsmen)
John Dryden - The Rival Ladies
John Dryden and Sir Robert Howard - The Indian Queen
George Etherege - The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub
Edward Howard - The Usurper
John Lacy - The Old Troop
Molière - Tartuffe
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - Henry V
Thomas Porter - The Carnival
Jean Racine - La Thébaide
Joost van den Vondel - Adam in Ballingschap
John Wilson - Andronicus Comnenius
- - The Projectors