1682 in literature

Overview of the events of 1682 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1682.

## Events

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* 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

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### Prose

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* John Bunyan – The Holy War
* Francisco Nunez de Cepeda – Idea del buen pastor representada en Empresas sacras
* William Penn
* Frame of Government of Pennsylvania
* Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims
* Mary Rowlandson – A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
* Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴) – The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男 Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko)
* Bulstrode Whitelocke – Memorials of the English Affairs from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I (Puritan viewpoint)

### Children and young people

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* Dorcas Dole – Salutation and Seasonable Exhortation to Children (by a Quaker)

### Drama

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* Anonymous – Mr. Turbulent
* John Banks – The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex
* John Banks – Vertue Betray'd
* 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

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* Nahum Tate (probable) – Absalom and Achitophel, part 2

## Births

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* October 2 – Birgitte Christine Kaas, Norwegian poet and translator (died 1761)[2][3]
* October 29 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (died 1761)
* Unknown date – Jacopo Facciolati, Paduan lexicographer and philologist (died 1769)

## Deaths

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* 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)
* 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)

## References

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1. ^ Milhous, Judith. "United Company Finances, 1682–1692". Theatre Research International. 7: 37–53.
2. ^ "Huitfeldt, Birgitte Christine, 1682-1761". Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Retrieved June 1,  2016.
3. ^ "Birgitte Christine Kaas". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved June 1,  2016.

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