1668 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1668.Events
Prose
- Juan Caramuel – Primus calamus
- Meric Casaubon – Of Credulity and Incredulity
- Josiah Child – Brief Observations concerning Trade and the Interest of Money
- Jean Claude – Réponse au livre de P. Nouet sur l'eucharistie
- Jan Comenius – The Way of Light
- John Dryden – Essay of Dramatick Poesie
- Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman – Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing
- Richard Flecknoe – Sir William Davenant's Voyage to the Other World
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen – Simplicius Simplicissimus
- Johannes Hevelius – Cometographia
- Peter Heylin – Cyprianus Anglicanus
- Urban Hjärne – Stratonice
- Adriaan Koerbagh – Een Bloemhof
- Henry Neville – The Isle of Pines
- Francisco Santos – Periquillo el de las gallineras
- John Wilkins – An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language
Drama
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
- *Tryphon
- *Henry V
- *Mustapha
- Margaret Cavendish – Plays, Never Before Printed, Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princess, the Duchess of Newcastle
- Sir William Davenant – The Man's the Master
- John Dryden – An Evening's Love
- George Etherege – She Would if She Could
- Sir Robert Howard – The Great Favourite or the Duke of Lerma
- Molière
- *L'Avare
- *George Dandin ou le Mari confondu
- Sir Charles Sedley – The Mulberry-Garden
- Thomas Shadwell – The Sullen Lovers
Poetry
- Abraham Cowley – Poemata Latina
- Sir John Denham – Poems and Translations
- Jean de La Fontaine – Fables choisies, mises en vers
- Georg Stiernhielm – Musæ Suethizantes
Births
- May 8 – Alain-René Lesage, French novelist and playwright
- September – Joseph Bingham, scholar
- November – Thomas Woolston, deist writer
- November 11 – Johann Albert Fabricius
- December 21 – Herman Boerhaave, humanist
Deaths
- April 7 – Sir William Davenant, poet and playwright
- May 21 – Josephus Adjutus, theologian
- August 9 – Jakob Balde, Latinist poet and academic
- November 17 – Joseph Alleine, Nonconformist writer
- December 11 – Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla, actress
- December 22 – Stephen Daye, first American printer
- December 23 – Martin Baučer, Slovene historian
