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The year 1682 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company.

New books

• John Bunyan - The Holy War
• Ihara Saikaku - The Man Who Spent His Life in Love
• Mary Rowlandson - Narrative of the Captivity

New drama

• John Banks - The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex
• John Dryden - MacFlecknoe
• John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee - The Duke of Guise
• Thomas d'Urfey - The Injured Princess (adapted from Cymbeline)
  • - The Royalist
• Thomas Otway - Venice Preserv'd
• Thomas Southerne - The Persian Prince, or the Loyal Brother

Poetry

• Nahum Tate (probable) - Absalom and Achitophel, part 2

Births

• date unknown - Jacopo Facciolati, lexicographer and philologist (died 1769)

Deaths

• March - Francis Sempill, poet and wit (born c.1616)
• October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne (born 1605)