1672 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1672.

Events

• January 25 - In London, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is destroyed by fire. The King's Company moves into the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which their rivals the Duke's Company left the previous year.
• June - Thomas Killigrew mounts another all-female production of his The Parson's Wedding with the King's Company (the first occurred in 1664). Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster and Dryden's The Maiden Queen are also staged with all-women casts at this time, with Dryden writing new Prologues for the productions.
• September 13 - John Bunyan released after a 12-year imprisonment for preaching without a licence.
• December - John Dryden's play Marriage à la Mode first performed in London by the King's Company.
• First publication of the Mercure de France (under the title of Mercure galant).

New books

Prose

• Nicolás Antonio - Bibliotheca Hispana Nova
• Richard Cumberland - De legibus naturae (On natural laws)
• Melchor Fuster - Conceptos predicables
• Gadla Walatta Petros (Ethiopian hagiography in Ge'ez language)
• Nathaniel Hodges - Loimologia
• James Janeway - A Token for Children, Part 2
• John Milton - Art of Logic
• Pierre Nicole - A Discourse Against Plays and Romances
• César Vichard de Saint-Réal - Dom Carlos

Drama

• Anonymous - Emilia (adapted from the Costanza di Rosamondo of Aurelio Aureli)
• Anonymous - The Illustrious Slaves
• John Dryden
  • The Assignation
  • Marriage à la mode
• John Lacy - The Old Troop published
• Molière - Les Femmes Savantes
• Henry Nevil Payne - The Morning Ramble
• Jean Racine - Bajazet
• Thomas Shadwell
  • Epsom Wells
  • The Miser
• George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - The Rehearsal published
• Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  • Eco y Narciso
  • El hijo del sol, Faetón
  • La niña de Gómez Arias

Poetry

• Miguel de Barrios - El coro de las musas

Births

• January 18 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer, (died 1731)
• March – Sir Richard Steele, Irish dramatist, satirist and politician (died 1729)
• May 1 – Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet and politician (died 1719)
• August 2 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist, historian and travel writer (died 1733)
• October 27 - Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna, Swedish writer (died 1737)

Deaths

• June 14 – Matthew Wren, English scholar and cleric (born 1629)
• June 20 – Alonso Andrada, Spanish biographer and ascetic writer (born 1590)
• September 12 – Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French classicist (born 1615)
• September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, pioneering American female author (born c. 1612)
• November 21 – Robert Creighton, Scottish classicist, politician and bishop (born 1593)

In literature

• Alexandre Dumas' novel The Black Tulip (La Tulipe noire, 1850) opens in this year.