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The year 1680 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- The spring/summer production of Nathaniel Lee's Theodosius at Dorset Garden features Henry Purcell's earliest theatre music.
New books
- John Bunyan - The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
- Gilbert Burnet - Some Passages of the Life and Death of...John Earl of Rochester
- Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz - Neptuno alegórico
- Sir Robert Filmer - Patriarcha published (written 1642)
New drama
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Hado y Divisa de Leonido y Marfisa
- John Crowne - The Misery of Civil War, adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2 and Part 3
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle - Aspar
- Nathaniel Lee - Theodosius
- Thomas Otway
- The Orphan
- The Soldiers' Fortune
- Jacques Pradon - Statira
- Elkanah Settle - The Female Prelate: Being the History of the Life and Death of Pope Joan
- Nahum Tate - The Loyal General
Births
- January 23 - Joseph Ames, English author (died 1759)
- September 22 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, poet (died 1747)
Deaths
- March 17 - François de La Rochefoucauld (born 1613)
- June 18 - Samuel Butler, satirical poet (born 1612)
- July 26 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (born 1647)
