The year 1696 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
New books
New drama
- Anonymous - Bonduca, or The British Heroine (adapted from Fletcher's Bonduca)
- Anonymous - The Cornish Comedy
- Anonymous ("W. M.") - The Female Wits, or the Triumverate of Poets at Rehearsal
- John Banks - Cyrus the Great, or The Tragedy of Love
- Aphra Behn - The Younger Brother, or The Amorous Jilt
- Colley Cibber - Love's Last Shift, or Virtue Rewarded
- Thomas Doggett - The Country Wake
- Thomas D'Urfey - The Comical History of Don Quixote. The Third Part
- George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne - The She-Gallants
- Joseph Harris - The City Bride; or, The Merry Cuckold (adapted from A Cure for a Cuckold)
- Charles Hopkins - Neglected Virtue; or, The Unhappy Conquerour
- Mary Delarivière Manley
- The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband
- The Royal Mischief
- Peter Anthony Motteux
- Love's a Jest
- She Ventures and He Wins
- Mary Pix - The Spanish Wives
- Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperour of the Turks
- Edward Ravenscroft - The Anatomist, or the Sham Doctor
- Thomas Southerne - Oroonoko (adapted from Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko)
- John Vanbrugh - The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger (a sequel to Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift)
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
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