1682 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 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è²ä¸ä»£ç·, KÅshoku Ichidai Otoko, "The Man Who Spent His Life in Love") inaugurates what becomes known as ukiyo-zÅshi ("books of the floating world"), the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction.
New books
Prose
- John Bunyan â The Holy War
- Francisco Nunez de Cepeda â Idea del buen pastor representada en Empresas sacras
- William Penn
- Mary Rowlandson â A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
- Ihara Saikaku (äºå 西鶴) â The Life of an Amorous Man (好è²ä¸ä»£ç· KÅshoku Ichidai Otoko)
- Bulstrode Whitelocke â Memorials of the English Affairs from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I (Puritan viewpoint)
Children and young people
- Dorcas Dole â Salutation and Seasonable Exhortation to Children (by a Quaker)
Drama
- Anonymous â Mr. Turbulent
- John Banks â The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex
- John Banks â Vertue Betray'd
- John Dryden â MacFlecknoe
- John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee â The Duke of Guise
- Thomas d'Urfey
- The Injured Princess (adapted from Cymbeline)
- The Royalist
- Thomas Otway â Venice Preserv'd
- William Shakespeare adapted by Nahum Tate â Coriolanus
- Thomas Southerne â The Persian Prince, or the Loyal Brother
- Elkanah Settle- The Heir of Morocco
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca â Verdadera V parte de comedias
Poetry
- Nahum Tate (probable) â Absalom and Achitophel, part 2
Births
- October 2 â Birgitte Christine Kaas, Norwegian poet and translator (died 1761)[2][3]
- October 29 â Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (died 1761)
- Unknown date â Jacopo Facciolati, Paduan lexicographer and philologist (died 1769)
Deaths
- March 12 â Francis Sempill, Scottish poet and wit (born c. 1616)
- October 19 â Sir Thomas Browne, English polymath and poet (born 1605)
- November 14 â Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678-1681 and travel writer (born 1619)
- Unknown dates
- Philip Hunton, English clergyman and political writer (born c. 1600)
- Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Chilean writer and soldier (born 1607 in literature)