1668 in literature

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The year 1668 in literature involved some significant events.

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Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler goes into its fourth edition.
John Dryden signs a contract to produce three plays a year for the King’s Company.

Meric Casaubon - Of Credulity and Incredulity
Margaret Cavendish - Plays, Never Before Printed, Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princess, the Duchess of Newcastle (closet dramas)
Josiah Child - Brief Observations concerning Trade and the Interest of Money
Jean Claude - Réponse au livre de P. Nouet sur l'eucharistie
Jan Comenius - The Way of Light
John Dryden - Essay of Dramatick Poesie
Richard Flecknoe - Sir William Davenant's Voyage to the Other World
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen -The Adventurous Simplex
Johannes Hevelius - Cometographia
Peter Heylin - Cyprianus Anglicanus
Henry Neville - The Isle of Pines
John Wilkins - An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - Tryphon performed; Henry V and Mustapha published
Sir William Davenant - The Man's the Master (a translation of Paul Scarron's Jodelet, ou le maître valet)
John Dryden - An Evening's Love
George Etherege - She Would if She Could
Sir Robert Howard - The Great Favourite or the Duke of Lerma
Molière -L'Avare (The Miser)
- - George Dandin ou le Mari confondu
Sir Charles Sedley - The Mulberry-Garden
Thomas Shadwell - The Sullen Lovers