1662 in literature

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The year 1662 in literature involved some significant events.

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September 29 - Samuel Pepys sees the King's Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In his Diary, he calls it "The most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life."
Two autos sacramentales by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, entitled Las órdenes militares and Mística y real Babilonia, are the subject of an inquiry by the Inquisition; the former is censured, its manuscript copies confiscated, and remains condemned until 1671.
Robert Herrick returns to his parish in Devon, following the Restoration.
The Parliament of England passes the first Printing Act of the Restoration era, the Licensing of the Press Act, which restricts London printers to a total of 24, each with no more than three presses and three apprentices. Books printed abroad are banned. Roger L'Estrange is granted a warrant to seize seditious books or pamphlets.

Book of Common Prayer (revised)
Margaret Cavendish - Orations of Diverse Persons
Franciscus van den Enden - Kort Verhael van Nieuw-Nederland (Brief Account of New Netherland)
Thomas Fuller - The History of the Worthies of England
John Heydon
- The Harmony of the World
- The English Physician's Guide
- Theomagia, Part 1
Huang Zongxi - Waiting for the Dawn
Baruch Spinoza - On the Improvement of the Understanding

Margaret Cavendish - Plays Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious and Excellent Princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle (closet dramas)
Aston Cockayne – The Tragedy of Ovid published
Pierre Corneille - Sertorius
Sir William Davenant - The Law Against Lovers
William Heminges - The Jews' Tragedy published
Robert Howard - The Committee
Francis Kirkman - The Wits, or Sport for Sport
Thomas Middleton & John Webster - Anything for a Quiet Life published
Molière - L'école des femmes (The School for Wives)
Ferdinando Parkhurst - Ignoramus (English translation of George Ruggle's Latin play)
John Wilson - The Cheats