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The year 1681 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- Birth of Abigail Williams, much later a central character in Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible.
New books
New drama
- Aphra Behn - The False Count and The Roundheads
- John Crowne - Thyestes
- Thomas d'Urfey - Sir Barnaby Whigg
- Edward Ravenscroft - The London Cuckolds
- Thomas Shadwell - The Lancashire Witches (adapted from Brome and Heywood's The Late Lancashire Witches)
- Nahum Tate - The Sicilian Usurper (adapted from Shakespeare's Richard II)
- - The Ingratitude of a Common-Wealth (adapted from Coriolanus)
Poetry
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - Poems on Most of the Festivals of the Church
- John Dryden - Absalom and Achitophel (part 1)
- Andrew Marvell - Miscellaneous Poems (posthumously published)
Births
- March 18 - Esther Johnson, the "Stella" of Jonathan Swift (died 1728)
- November 17 - Pierre François le Courayer, Roman Catholic theologian (died 1776)
Deaths
- May 25 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1600)
