1682 in literature

1682 in literature

The year 1682 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company.

New books

*John Bunyan - "The Holy War"
*Ihara Saikaku - "The Man Who Spent His Life in Love"
*Mary Rowlandson - "Narrative of the Captivity"

New drama

* John Banks - "The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex"
* John Dryden - "MacFlecknoe"
* John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee - "The Duke of Guise"
* Thomas d'Urfey - "The Injured Princess" (adapted from "Cymbeline")
** - "The Royalist"
* Thomas Otway - "Venice Preserv'd"
* Thomas Southerne - "The Persian Prince, or the Loyal Brother"

Poetry

*Nahum Tate (probable) - "Absalom and Achitophel", part 2

Births

*"date unknown" - Jacopo Facciolati, lexicographer and philologist (died 1769)

Deaths

*March - Francis Sempill, poet and wit (born c.1616)
* October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne (born 1605)


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