1684 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1684. == Events == June 25 – The death of Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow, gives rise to establishment of the Leighton Library at Dunblane, the oldest surviving public subscription (lending) library in Scotland. July 25 – The English novelist and dramatist Mary Griffith marries merchant George Pix. November 11 – The English dramatist Nathaniel Lee is admitted to Bedlam Hospital for the insane. unknown dates The Protestant Academy of Saumur is closed down by King Louis XIV. John Banks' historical play The Island Queens, or the Death of Mary Queen of Scotland is banned from the stage; it is produced as The Albion Queens twenty years later (1704). Pierre Bayle begins his journal of literary criticism, Nouvelles de la république des lettres. == New books == === Fiction === Aphra Behn – Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister John Bunyan – The Pilgrim's Progress, Second Part Giovanni Paolo Marana – Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy Ihara Saikaku – The Great Mirror of Beauties === Drama === Jean de La Chapelle – Ajax John Horne – Fortune's Task, or the Fickle Fair One John Lacy – Sir Hercules Buffoon Simon Neale – The Mistaken Beauty (adapted from Corneille) John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (possible author) – Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery Thomas Southerne – The Disappointment, or the Mother of Fashion Pedro Calderon de la Barca Los cabellos de Absalón Guárdate del agua mansa === Poetry === Aphra Behn – Poems upon Several Occasions Pavao Ritter Vitezović – Odiljenje sigetsko (Farewell at Sziget) === Non-fiction === Jakob Abbadie – Traité de la vérité de la religion chrétienne Dorcas Dole – Once More a Warning to Thee, O England, but more particularly to the inhabitants of the city of Bristol (by a Quaker) Edward Phillips – Enchiridion linguae latinae Christian Knorr von Rosenroth – Kabbala Denudata (publication completed) Christopher Sandius – Bibliotheca antitrinitariorum George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax – The Character of a Trimmer Antonio de Solís y Rivadeneyra – Historia de la conquista de México == Births == February 21 – Justus van Effen, Dutch journalist writing also in French (died 1735) October 16 – Peter Walkden, English diarist (died 1769) December 3 – Ludvig Holberg, Danish/Norwegian essayist, philosopher and playwright (died 1754) == Deaths == April 1 – Roger Williams, English-born American theologian (born 1603) October 1 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (born 1606) December 7 – John Oldham, English satirical poet and translator (born 1653) Unknown date – Francisco de Avellaneda, Spanish dramatist and poet (born c. 1625) == References ==