1684 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1684. Events June 25 – The death of Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow, gives rise to establishment of the Leighton Library at Dunblane, the oldest surviving public subscription (lending) library in Scotland. July 25 – The English novelist and dramatist Mary Griffith marries merchant George Pix. November 11 – The English dramatist Nathaniel Lee is admitted to Bedlam Hospital for the insane. unknown dates The Protestant Academy of Saumur is closed down by King Louis XIV of France. 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. New books Fiction Aphra Behn – Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister John Bunyan – The Pilgrim's Progress, Second Part Giovanni Paolo Marana – Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy Ihara Saikaku – The Great Mirror of Beauties