1668 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1668.
Events
- c. February â The English Parliament and bishops seek to suppress Thomas Hobbes' treatise Leviathan.[1]
- September 9 â Molière's comedy The Miser (L'Avare) is first performed, at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris.[2]
- unknown date â Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler goes into its fourth edition.[3]
New books
Prose
- Juan Caramuel â Primus calamus
- Meric Casaubon â Of Credulity and Incredulity[4]
- Josiah Child â Brief Observations concerning Trade and the Interest of Money
- Jean Claude â Réponse au livre de P. Nouet sur l'eucharistie[5]
- Jan Comenius â The Way of Light
- John Dryden â Essay of Dramatick Poesie
- Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman â Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing
- Richard Flecknoe â Sir William Davenant's Voyage to the Other World
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen â Simplicius Simplicissimus[6] (first picaresque novel in German, dated 1669 but probably published this year)
- Johannes Hevelius â Cometographia
- Peter Heylin â Cyprianus Anglicanus (biography of William Laud)[7]
- Urban Hjärne â Stratonice (completed)[8]
- Adriaan Koerbagh â Een Bloemhof
- Henry Neville â The Isle of Pines
- William Penn â Truth Exalted
- Francisco Santos â Periquillo el de las gallineras
- John Wilkins â An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language
Drama
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery[9]
- Tryphon (performed)
- Henry V (published)
- Mustapha (published)
- Margaret Cavendish â Plays, Never Before Printed, Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princess, the Duchess of Newcastle (closet dramas)
- Sir William Davenant â The Man's the Master (a translation of Paul Scarron's Jodelet, ou le maître valet)
- John Dryden â An Evening's Love
- George Etherege â She Would If She Could
- Sir Robert Howard â The Great Favourite or the Duke of Lerma
- Molière
- Sir Charles Sedley â The Mulberry-Garden
- Thomas Shadwell â The Sullen Lovers
Poetry
- Abraham Cowley â Poemata Latina (posthumous)
- Sir John Denham â Poems and Translations
- Jean de La Fontaine â Fables choisies, mises en vers
- Georg Stiernhielm â Musæ Suethizantes[8]
Births
- May 8 â Alain-René Lesage, French novelist and playwright (died 1747)
- September â Joseph Bingham, scholar (died 1723)
- November (baptised) â Thomas Woolston, deist writer (died 1731)
- November 11 â Johann Albert Fabricius (died 1736)[10]
- December 21 â Herman Boerhaave, humanist (died 1738)[11]
Deaths
- April 7 â Sir William Davenant, poet and playwright (born 1606)[12]
- May 21 â Josephus Adjutus, theologian (born c. 1602)
- August 9 â Jakob Balde, Latinist poet and academic (born 1604)[13]
- November 17 â Joseph Alleine, Nonconformist writer (born 1634)
- December 11 â Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla, actress (born 1633)[14]
- December 22 â Stephen Daye, first American printer (born 1594)
- December 23 â Martin BauÄer, Slovene historian (born 1595)[15]