1682 in literature
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The year 1682 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company.
[edit] New books
- John Bunyan - The Holy War
- Ihara Saikaku - The Man Who Spent His Life in Love
- Mary Rowlandson - Narrative of the Captivity
[edit] New drama
- John Banks - The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex
- John Dryden - MacFlecknoe
- John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee - The Duke of Guise
- Thomas d'Urfey - The Injured Princess (adapted from Cymbeline)
- - The Royalist
- Thomas Otway - Venice Preserv'd
- Thomas Southerne - The Persian Prince, or the Loyal Brother
[edit] Poetry
- Nahum Tate (probable) - Absalom and Achitophel, part 2
[edit] Births
- date unknown - Jacopo Facciolati, lexicographer and philologist (died 1769)
[edit] Deaths
- March - Francis Sempill, poet and wit (born c.1616)
- October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne (born 1605)
