1663 in literature

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The year 1663 in literature involved some significant events.

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February - The Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (the Academy of the Humanities) is founded in Paris.
April 8 - The King's Company inaugurate their new theatre, the first Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, with a revival of Fletcher's The Humorous Lieutenant. The play is a hit, and runs for twelve straight nights — very unusual in the repertory system of the time.
August - The Playhouse to Be Let, an anthology of work by Sir William Davenant, is performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.
John Milton marries Elizabeth Minshull.
John Dryden and John Aubrey become Fellows of the Royal Society.
Katherine Philips' translation of Pierre Corneille's Pompée is successfully produced at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.
In England, Roger L'Estrange is appointed Surveyor of the Imprimery and Printing Presses^[1]^[2] and licenser of the press.^[3]

Anonymous - The Wandering Whores' Complaint for Want of Trading (published)
Miguel de Barrios - El Espanjol de Oran
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - The General
Henry Cary - The Marriage Night
Abraham Cowley - The Cutter of Coleman Street
William Davenant - The Playhouse to Be Let (performed)
- The Siege of Rhodes Part 2 (published)
John Dryden - The Wild Gallant
Andreas Gryphius
- Absurda Comica, oder Herr Peter Squentz
- 'Papinianus
James Howard - The English Monsieur
Sir Robert Howard - The Committee
Thomas Porter - A Witty Combat, or the Female Victor
Richard Rhodes - Flora's Vagaries
Sir Robert Stapylton - The Stepmother
- - The Slighted Maid
Sir Samuel Tuke - The Adventures of Five Hours (adapted from Antonio Coello's Los empeños de seis horas)

February 12 - Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer (died 1728)
March 6 - Francis Atterbury, politician and writer (died 1732)
March 22 - August Hermann Francke, German theologian (died 1727)
May 20 - William Bradford, printer in the American colonies (died 1752)
date unknown
- William King, poet (died 1712)
- George Stepney, poet (died 1707)
probable - Mary de la Rivière Manley, novelist, playwright and political pamphleteer (died 1724)

April 17 - David Questiers, poet (born 1623)
October 31 - Théophile Raynaud, theologian (born 1583)
December 5 - Severo Bonini, music writer (born 1582)
date unknown
- Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor, memoirist (born c.1606)
- Elizabeth Egerton, countess of Bridgwater, essayist (born 1626)

^ "The Censorship of L'Estrange". The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. http://www.bartleby.com/221/1402.html. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
^ Cousin, John William (1910). "Estrange, Sir Roger". A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Short_Biographical_Dictionary_of_English_Literature/L%27Estrange,_Sir_Roger. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 270. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.