1683 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1683.

Events

• May 17 - Jordaan Luchtmans, the predecessor of Brill Publishers, is registered as a bookseller by the Leiden booksellers' guild.
• May 25 - Lancelot Addison is appointed Dean of Lichfield.
• June 26 - Madame de La Fayette is widowed.
• August/September - John Locke flees to the Netherlands, under suspicion of involvement in the Rye House Plot in England.
• November 4 - Marriage of André Dacier and Anne Lefèvre in Paris.
• The Protestant Academy of Saumur is repressed by King Louis XIV of France.
• A public library is first recorded at Kirkwall on Orkney, the oldest known in Scotland.

New fiction

• Alexander Oldys (?) - The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore
• "Abbé du Prat" (pseudonym) - Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in her Smock (Vénus dans le cloître, ou la Religieuse en chemise)

New drama

• Joshua Barnes - Landgartha, or the Amazon Queen of Denmark and Norway
• Chikamatsu Monzaemon - Yotsugi Soga ("The Soga Successors" or "The Soga Heir")
• John Crowne - City Politiques
• John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee - The Duke of Guise
• Sor Juana - Los empeños de una casa ("The Trials of a Noble House")
• Thomas Otway - The Atheist
• Edward Ravenscroft - Dame Dobson, or the Cunning Woman
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Los empeños de una casa
• Pedro Calderon de la Barca - El pintor de su deshonra

Poetry

• Robert Gould - Love Given O'er: Or a Satyr on the Inconstancy of Woman

Non-fiction

• "R.B." (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch), comp. - Two Journeys to Jerusalem
• John Dryden - Plutarch (one of the first biographies in the English language)
• Melchor Fuster - Elogio evangélico a San José
• Joseph Moxon - Mechanick Exercises
• John Pordage - Theologia Mystica
• Dr. Thomas Sydenham - Tractatus de podagra et hydrope

Births

• April 3 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (died 1749)
• December 27 – Conyers Middleton, English controversialist and cleric (died 1750)

Deaths

• January 15 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (born 1609)
• March 19 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist and manager (born 1612)
• August 24 – John Owen, English theologian (born 1616)
• October 20 – Marie-Catherine de Villedieu, French novelist and dramatist (born 1640)
• November 18 – Innokentiy Gizel, Ukrainian historian (born c. 1600)
• December 15 – Izaak Walton, English writer and biographer (born 1593)