title: 1683 in literature
text: # 1683 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1683.
  
  ## Events
  
  * May 17 – Jordaan Luchtmans, the predecessor of Brill Publishers, is registered as a bookseller by the Leiden booksellers' guild.
  * May 25 – Lancelot Addison is appointed Dean of Lichfield.
  * June 26 – Madame de La Fayette is widowed.
  * August/September – John Locke flees to the Netherlands, under suspicion of involvement in the Rye House Plot in England.
  * November 4 – Marriage of André Dacier and Anne Lefèvre in Paris.
  * December 7 – English parliamentarian Algernon Sidney is executed for treason, based largely on the anti-monarchist views expressed in his Discourses Concerning Government.
  * unknown dates
     * John Banks' historical play The Innocent Usurper, about Lady Jane Grey, is banned from the stage by the censors.
     * A public library is first recorded at Kirkwall on Orkney.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Fiction
  
  * Alexander Oldys (?) – The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore
  * "Abbé du Prat" (pseudonym) – Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in her Smock (Vénus dans le cloître, ou la Religieuse en chemise)
  
  ### Drama
  
  * Joshua Barnes – Landgartha, or the Amazon Queen of Denmark and Norway
  * Chikamatsu Monzaemon – Yotsugi Soga (The Soga Successors/The Soga Heir)
  * John Crowne – City Politiques
  * John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee – The Duke of Guise
  * Nathaniel Lee – Constantine the Great
  * Thomas Otway – The Atheist
  * Edward Ravenscroft – Dame Dobson
  * Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – Los empeños de una casa (The Trials of a Noble House)
  * Pedro Calderon de la Barca – El pintor de su deshonra
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Robert Gould – Love Given O'er: Or a Satyr on the Inconstancy of Woman
  
  ### Non-fiction
  
  * "R. B." (i. e. Nathaniel Crouch), compiled – Two Journeys to Jerusalem
  * John Dryden – Plutarch (one of the first biographies in the English language)
  * Joseph Moxon – Mechanick Exercises
  * John Pordage – Theologia Mystica
  * Dr. Thomas Sydenham – Tractatus de podagra et hydrope
  
  ## Births
  
  * April 3 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (died 1749)
  * December 27 – Conyers Middleton, English controversialist and cleric (died 1750)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 15 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (born 1609)
  * March 19 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist and manager (born 1612)
  * August – Ralph Josselin, English diarist and Anglican cleric (born 1616)
  * August 24 – John Owen, English theologian (born 1616)
  * October 20 – Marie-Catherine de Villedieu, French novelist and dramatist (born 1640)
  * November 18 – Innokentiy Gizel, Ukrainian historian (born c. 1600)
  * December 15 – Izaak Walton, English writer and biographer (born 1593)
  