1673 in literature

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The year 1673 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

February 10 - Première of Molière's comédie-ballet The Imaginary Invalid in Paris. During the fourth performance, on February 17, the playwright, playing the title rôle, collapses on stage, dying soon after.
With the death of Sir Henry Herbert, Thomas Killigrew is appointed Master of the Revels in England.^[1]
In response to events of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, John Dryden's topical play Amboyna, about events in the East Indies, is reportedly "contrived and written in a month" — certainly one of the fastest acts of solo dramatic composition known. The drama is premièred onstage in May.^[2]
Elkanah Settle's tragedy The Empress of Morocco, premièred on July 3 at the Dorset Gardens Theatre in London by the Duke's Company, is published in quarto; in addition to its frontispiece illustration, the quarto contains five woodcuts depicting scenes in the play — the first English play text illustrated in this way. Settle's play also inspires a farce with the same title, probably by Thomas Duffet, performed by the King's Company and published the following year.
Archpriest Petrovich Avvakum writes his Zhitie (Life) as the first Russian autobiography.
Antonio Magliabechi is appointed librarian to Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Bathsua Makin - An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen
England's appeal from the Private Cabal at Whitehall to the Great Council of the Nation by a true Lover of his Country - pamphlet attributed to Sir William Coventry
Francis Kirkman - The Unlucky Citizen
Johannes Schefferus - Lapponia
Shugi Washo
Thomas Traherne - Roman Forgeries

Aphra Behn - The Dutch Lover
Sir William Davenant - News from Plymouth, The Law Against Lovers, The Fair Favourite, and The Siege published posthumously
John Dryden
- Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants
- Marriage à la Mode
Molière - Le malade imaginaire
Henry Nevil Payne - The Fatal Jealousy
Edward Ravenscroft - The Careless Lovers
Elkanah Settle - The Empress of Morocco
Pedro Calderon de la Barca - La vida es sueño (sacramental play)

January 1 – Johannes Kelpius, German Pietist writer (died 1708)
October 26 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian prince and man of letters (died 1723)
Unknown dates
- Antoine Banier, French historian and translator (died 1741)
- George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer (died 1731)
- John Oldmixon, English historian (died 1742)