1686 in literature

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The year 1686 in literature involved some significant events.

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[edit] Events

[edit] New books

  • John Bunyan - A Book for Boys and Girls, or, Country Rhymes for Children
  • Gottfried Leibniz - Brevis Demonstratio Erroris Memorabilis Cartesii et Aliorum Circa Legem Naturae ("A Brief Demonstration of the Memorable Error of Descartes and Others About the Law of Nature")
    • Discours de Métaphysique
  • Bernard de Fontenelle - Entrétiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes
    • L'Histoire des Oracles
  • Ihara Saikaku - Twenty Cases of Unfilial Children
    • The Woman Who Spent Her Life in Love
  • Thomas Sydenham - Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu

[edit] New drama

[edit] Poetry

  • Sarah Fyge (Egerton) - The Female Advocate
  • Anne Killigrew - Poems (posthumously published)

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[edit] Deaths

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