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The year 1668 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler goes into its fourth edition.
- John Dryden signs a contract to produce three plays a year for the King’s Company.
New books
- Meric Casaubon - Of Credulity and Incredulity
- Margaret Cavendish - Plays, Never Before Printed, Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princess, the Duchess of Newcastle (closet dramas)
- 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 Flecknoe - Sir William Davenant's Voyage to the Other World
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen -The Adventurous Simplex
- Johannes Hevelius - Cometographia
- Peter Heylin - Cyprianus Anglicanus
- Henry Neville - The Isle of Pines
- John Wilkins - An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language
New drama
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - Tryphon performed; Henry V and Mustapha published
- Sir William Davenant - The Man's the Master (a translation of Paul Scarron's Jodelet, ou le maître valet)
- 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 (The Miser)
- Sir Charles Sedley - The Mulberry-Garden
- Thomas Shadwell - The Sullen Lovers
Poetry
- Abraham Cowley - Poemata Latina (posthumous)
- Sir John Denham - Poems and Translations
Births
- May 8 - Alain-René Lesage (died 1747)
- September - Joseph Bingham, scholar (died 1723)
- November (baptised) - Thomas Woolston, deist writer (died 1731)
- November 11 - Johann Albert Fabricius (died 1736)
- December 21 - Herman Boerhaave, humanist (died 1738)
Deaths
- April 7 - Sir William Davenant (born 1606)
- date unknown - Stephen Daye, first American printer (born 1594)
