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The year '1693 in literature' involved some significant events.

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Events

New books

New Drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Events

★ July 29 - Anthony Wood is condemned in the vice-chancellor's court for certain libels against the late Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon; he is fined, banished from the university until he recants, and the offending pages are burned.

★ Joseph Addison addresses an early poem to John Dryden.

New books

★ John Dennis - ''The Impartial Critick''

★ John Dryden and Jacob Tonson - ''Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems''

★ John Evelyn - ''The Compleat Gard'ner''

★ Robert Gould - ''The Corruption of the Times by Money, a Satyr''

★ John Locke - ''Some Thoughts Concerning Education''

★ William Penn - ''Some Fruits of Solitude''

★ Thomas Rymer - ''A Short View of Tragedy''

★ Catherine Trotter (or Catherine Trotter Cockburn) - ''Olinda's Adventures; or, The Amours of a Young Lady''

★ Samuel Wesley - ''The Life of Our Blessed Lord''

New Drama

★ John Bancroft - ''Henry the Second, King of England; With the death of Rosamond, a tragedy''

★ Roger Boyle - ''Guzman: A comedy''

★ William Congreve - ''The Old Bachelor''

★ William Congreve - ''The Double Dealer''

★ Thomas D'Urfey - ''The Richmond Heiress; or, A Woman Once in the Right: A comedy''

★ Thomas Shadwell - ''The Volunteers; or, The Stock-Jobbers: A comedy''

★ Thomas Southerne - ''The Maids Last Prayer; or Any, Rather Than Fail: A comedy''

Non-fiction

★ John Dennis - ''The Impartial Critick''

★ August Hermann Francke - ''Manuductio ad lectionem Scripturae Sacrae''

Births

★ Father Fray Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A., Spanish Augustinian historical writer, wrote ''Conquistas de las Islas Philipinas'' (d. 1746)

★ Eliza Haywood - dramatist, journalist, and novelist.

★ George Lillo - dramatist.

Deaths

★ April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French memoirist (born 1618)

★ May 25 - Madame de La Fayette, French writer (born 1634)

★ August - Charles Blount, deist author.