1683 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1683.
Events
- May 17 â Jordaan Luchtmans, the predecessor of Brill Publishers, is registered as a bookseller by the Leiden booksellers' guild.[1]
- May 25 â Lancelot Addison is appointed Dean of Lichfield.
- June 26 â Madame de La Fayette is widowed.
- August/September â John Locke flees to the Netherlands, under suspicion of involvement in the Rye House Plot in England.
- November 4 â Marriage of André Dacier and Anne Lefèvre in Paris.[2]
- December 7 â English parliamentarian Algernon Sidney is executed for treason, based largely on the anti-monarchist views expressed in his Discourses Concerning Government, in manuscript
- unknown dates
- John Banks' historical play The Innocent Usurper, about Lady Jane Grey, is banned from the stage by the censors.[3]
- A public library is first recorded at Kirkwall on Orkney.[4]
New books
Fiction
- Alexander Oldys (?) â The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore
- "Abbé du Prat" (pseudonym) â Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in her Smock (Vénus dans le cloître, ou la Religieuse en chemise)
Drama
- Joshua Barnes â Landgartha, or the Amazon Queen of Denmark and Norway[5]
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon â Yotsugi Soga (The Soga Successors/The Soga Heir)
- John Crowne â City Politiques[5]
- John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee â The Duke of Guise
- Nathaniel Lee â Constantine the Great
- Thomas Otway â The Atheist[5]
- Edward Ravenscroft â Dame Dobson[5]
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz â Los empeños de una casa (The Trials of a Noble House)
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca â El pintor de su deshonra
Poetry
- Robert Gould â Love Given O'er: Or a Satyr on the Inconstancy of Woman
Non-fiction
- "R. B." (i. e. Nathaniel Crouch), compiled â Two Journeys to Jerusalem
- John Dryden â Plutarch (one of the first biographies in the English language)
- Joseph Moxon â Mechanick Exercises
- John Pordage â Theologia Mystica
- Dr. Thomas Sydenham â Tractatus de podagra et hydrope
Births
- April 3 â Mark Catesby, English naturalist (died 1749)
- December 27 â Conyers Middleton, English controversialist and cleric (died 1750)
Deaths
- January 15 â Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (born 1609)
- March 19 â Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist and manager (born 1612)
- August â Ralph Josselin, English diarist and Anglican cleric (born 1616)[6]
- August 24 â John Owen, English theologian (born 1616)
- October 20 â Marie-Catherine de Villedieu, French novelist and dramatist (born 1640)
- November 18 â Innokentiy Gizel, Ukrainian historian (born c. 1600)
- December 15 â Izaak Walton, English writer and biographer (born 1593)[7]