1673 in literature

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The year 1673 in literature involved some significant events.

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With the death of Sir Henry Herbert, Thomas Killigrew is appointed Master of the Revels. Killigrew and the King's Company revive Killigrew's The Parson's Wedding with an all-female cast, a tactic first used in a 1664 production.
In response to events of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, John Dryden's topical play Amboyna, about events in the East Indies, is reportedly "contrived and written in a month" — certainly one of the fastest acts of solo dramatic composition known. The drama premiers onstage in May.
Elkanah Settle's tragedy The Empress of Morocco, acted by the Duke's Company, is published in quarto; in addition to its frontispiece illustration, the quarto contains five woodcuts depicting scenes in the play — the first English play text illustrated in this way. Settle's play also inspires a farce with the same title, probably by Thomas Duffet, performed by the King's Company and published the following year.

Bathsua Makin - An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen
England's appeal from the Private Cabal at Whitehall to the Great Council of the Nation by a true Lover of his Country - pamphlet attributed to Sir William Coventry
Francis Kirkman - The Unlucky Citizen
Johannes Schefferus - Lapponia
Shugi Washo
Thomas Traherne - Roman Forgeries

Aphra Behn - The Dutch Lover
Sir William Davenant - News from Plymouth, The Law Against Lovers, The Fair Favourite, and The Siege published posthumously
John Dryden - Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants
- - Marriage à la Mode
Molière - Le malade imaginaire
Henry Nevil Payne - The Fatal Jealousy
Edward Ravenscroft - The Careless Lovers
Elkanah Settle - The Empress of Morocco

January 1 - Johannes Kelpius, German Pietist writer (died 1708)
October 26 - Dimitrie Cantemir, first author of a book in Romanian (died 1723)
date unknown
- George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer (died 1731)
- John Oldmixon, English historian (died 1742)

February 17 - Molière (born 1622)
March - Joseph Caryl, Nonconformist theologian (born 1602)
March 15 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (born 1615)
June 25 - D'Artagnan, soldier, inspiration for Dumas' character
December - Margaret Cavendish, poet and biographer (born 1623)
date unknown
- Richard Braithwaite, English poet (born 1588)
- Ingen, Chinese Buddhist poet (born 1592)
- Katarina Zrinska, Croatian poet (born c. 1625)