1664 in literature
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The year 1664 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- Sir William Davenant's "dramatic opera" Macbeth, adapted from Shakespeare's play, premiers on November 5.
- Thomas Killigrew and the King's Company stage Killigrew's The Parson's Wedding with an all-female cast. (Killigrew attempts a similar all-female production of his play Thomaso, though the project is never realized.)
New books
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle - Sociable Letters
- Charles Cotton - The Compleat Gamester
- René Descartes - Traité de l'homme et de la formation du foetus
- John Evelyn - Sylva, or Discourse on Forest Trees
- Richard Flecknoe - A Discourse of the English Stage
- John Heydon - Psonthonpanchia
- Theomagia, Part 3
- Lucy Hutchinson - Memoirs Of The Life Of Colonel Hutchinson
- Thomas Killigrew - collected plays
- William Killigrew - three plays in one folio volume
- William Shakespeare - the second impression of the Third Folio, which added seven plays to the thirty-six of the First Folio and the Second: Pericles, Prince of Tyre and six works from the Shakespeare Apocrypha
- Jeremy Taylor - Dissuasive from Popery
- Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler, 3rd edition
New drama
- Lodowick Carlell - Heraclius, Emperor of the East published (adapted from Corneille's Heraclius)
- Pierre Corneille - Othon
- Sir William Davenant - The Rivals (an adaptation of The Two Noble Kinsmen)
- John Dryden - The Rival Ladies
- John Dryden and Sir Robert Howard - The Indian Queen
- George Etherege - The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub
- Edward Howard - The Usurper
- John Lacy - The Old Troop
- Molière - Tartuffe
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - Henry V
- Thomas Porter - The Carnival
- Jean Racine - La Thébaide
- Joost van den Vondel - Adam in Ballingschap
- John Wilson - Andronicus Comnenius
- - The Projectors
Poetry
- Samuel Butler - Hudibras Part 2
- Katherine Philips - Poems
Births
- ?January 24 - Sir John Vanbrugh (died 1726)
- July 21 - Matthew Prior (died 1721)
- November 9 - Henry Wharton (died 1695)
- probable - William Mountfort (died 1692)
Deaths
- January 20 - Isaac Ambrose (born 1604)
- July 16 - Andreas Gryphius (born 1616)
- November 18 - Nikola Zrinski (born 1620)
- date unknown - Bihari (born 1600)
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