1682 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1682.
Events
- In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company of actors.[1]
- In Paris, the Bibliothèque Mazarine reopens at the Collège des Quatre-Nations.
- In Japan, Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男, Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko, "The Man Who Spent His Life in Love") inaugurates what becomes known as ukiyo-zōshi ("books of the floating world"), the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction.
New books
- John Bunyan - The Holy War
- William Penn
- Ihara Saikaku - The Life of an Amorous Man
- Mary Rowlandson - Narrative of the Captivity
- Francisco Nunez de Cepeda - Idea del buen pastor representada en Empresas sacras
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
- William Shakespeare adapted by Nahum Tate - Coriolanus
- Thomas Southerne - The Persian Prince, or the Loyal Brother
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca - Verdadera V parte de comedias
Poetry
- Nahum Tate (probable) - Absalom and Achitophel, part 2
Births
- date unknown - Jacopo Facciolati, Paduan lexicographer and philologist (died 1769)
Deaths
- March 12 - Francis Sempill, Scottish poet and wit (born c.1616)
- October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne, English polymath and poet (born 1605)
- November 14 - Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678-1681 and travel writer (born 1619)
- date unknown
- Philip Hunton, English clergyman and political writer (born c.1600)
- Madeleine Patin, French moralist writer (born 1610)
- Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Chilean writer and soldier (born 1607)
References
- ↑ Milhous, Judith. "United Company Finances, 1682–1692". Theatre Research International 7: 37–53.
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