1683 in literature
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The year 1683 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- May 17 - Jordaan Luchtmans, the predecessor of Brill Publishers, is registered as a bookseller by the Leiden booksellers' guild.[1]
- May 25 - Lancelot Addison is appointed Dean of Lichfield.
- June 26 - Madame de La Fayette is widowed.
- August/September - John Locke flees to the Netherlands, under suspicion of involvement in the Rye House Plot in England.
- November 4 - Marriage of André Dacier and Anne Lefèvre in Paris.
- The Protestant Academy of Saumur is repressed by King Louis XIV of France.
- A public library is first recorded at Kirkwall on Orkney, the oldest known in Scotland.[2]
New fiction
- Alexander Oldys (?) - The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore
- "Abbé du Prat" (pseudonym) - Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in her Smock (Vénus dans le cloître, ou la Religieuse en chemise)
New drama
- Joshua Barnes - Landgartha, or the Amazon Queen of Denmark and Norway
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon - Yotsugi Soga ("The Soga Successors" or "The Soga Heir")
- John Crowne - City Politiques
- John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee - The Duke of Guise
- Sor Juana - Los empeños de una casa ("The Trials of a Noble House")
- Thomas Otway - The Atheist
- Edward Ravenscroft - Dame Dobson, or the Cunning Woman
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Los empeños de una casa
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca - El pintor de su deshonra
Poetry
- Robert Gould - Love Given O'er: Or a Satyr on the Inconstancy of Woman
Non-fiction
- "R.B." (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch), comp. - Two Journeys to Jerusalem
- John Dryden - Plutarch (one of the first biographies in the English language)
- Melchor Fuster - Elogio evangélico a San José
- Joseph Moxon - Mechanick Exercises
- John Pordage - Theologia Mystica
- Dr. Thomas Sydenham - Tractatus de podagra et hydrope
Births
- April 3 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (died 1749)
- December 27 – Conyers Middleton, English controversialist and cleric (died 1750)
Deaths
- January 15 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (born 1609)
- March 19 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist and manager (born 1612)
- August 24 – John Owen, English theologian (born 1616)
- October 20 – Marie-Catherine de Villedieu, French novelist and dramatist (born 1640)
- November 18 – Innokentiy Gizel, Ukrainian historian (born c. 1600)
- December 15 – Izaak Walton, English writer and biographer (born 1593)