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The year 1684 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- 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.
- English novelist and dramatist Mary Griffith marries merchant George Pix.
New books
Fiction
- Aphra Behn - Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
- Ihara Saikaku - The Great Mirror of Beauties
Non-fiction
- Jakob Abbadie - Traite de la verite de la religion chretienne
- Edward Phillips - Enchiridion liguae latinae
- Christopher Sandius - Bibliotheca antitrinitariorum
- George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax - The Character of a Trimmer
Plays
- John Horne - Fortune's Task, or the Fickle Fair One
- John Lacy - Sir Hercules Buffoon
- Simon Neale - The Mistaken Beauty (adapted from Corneille)
- Edward Ravenscroft - Dame Dobson, or the Cunning Woman
- Thomas Southerne - The Disappointment, or the Mother of Fashion
Poetry
- Aphra Behn - Poems upon Several Occasions
Births
- December 3 - Ludvig Holberg (died 1754)
Deaths
- April 1 - Roger Williams, theologian (born 1603)
- October 1 - Pierre Corneille, dramatist (born 1606)
- December 7 - John Oldham, poet (born 1653)
