1677 in literature

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The year 1677 in literature involved some significant events.

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Roger Morrice begins his Entring Book.
Francis North's A Philosophical Essay of Music published.
Thomas Killigrew, ineffective after four years in the office of Master of the Revels, is replaced by his son Charles.
Two plays on the same subject of King Edgar are acted in 1677: Edward Ravenscroft's tragicomedy King Edgar and Alfreda, and Thomas Rymer's Edgar, or the English Monarch. Rymer's play is a flop; it precedes his famous The Tragedies of the Last Age Considered by a scant year.

John Banks - The Rival Kings (adapted from la Calprenède's Cassandre)
Aphra Behn - The Rover
- - The Debauchee (adapted from Richard Brome's A Mad Couple Well-Match'd)
Thomas Betterton - The Counterfeit Bridegroom
William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle - The Humorous Lovers and The Triumphant Widow published
John Crowne - The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, Parts 1 and 2
Charles Davenant - Circe (a "semi-opera" with music by John Banister)
Thomas d'Urfey - The Fond Husband, or the Plotting Sisters
John Learned - The Country Innocence
Nathaniel Lee - The Rival Queens
Thomas Otway - The Cheats of Scapin (adapted from Molière's Fourberies de Scapin)
- - Titus and Berenice (adapted from Racine's Bérénice)
Thomas Porter - The French Conjurer
Jean Racine - Phèdre
Edward Ravenscroft - King Edgar and Alfreda
- - Scaramouch a Philosopher, Harlequin a Schoolboy, Bravo a Merchant and Magician
Thomas Rymer - Edgar, or the English Monarch