1672 in literature

Events from the year 1672 in literature. Events January 25 – London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is destroyed by fire. The King's Company moves to the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which the rival Duke's Company left the previous year. June – Thomas Killigrew mounts another all-female production of his The Parson's Wedding with the King's Company. (The first occurred in 1664.) Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster and Dryden's The Maiden Queen are also staged with all-women casts new prologues by Dryden for the productions. September 13 – John Bunyan is released after twelve years' imprisonment for preaching without a licence. December – John Dryden's play Marriage à la Mode first performed in London by the King's Company. The Mercure de France is first published, under the title Mercure galant. New books Prose Nicolás Antonio – Bibliotheca Hispana Nova Nicolas Denys – Description Géographique et Historique des Costes de l’Amérique Septentrionale (Description and Natural History of the Coasts of North America) Richard Cumberland – De legibus naturae (On natural laws) Melchor Fuster – Conceptos predicables Gadla Walatta Petros (Ethiopian hagiography in Ge'ez language) Nathaniel Hodges – Loimologia James Janeway – A Token for Children, Part 2 John Milton – Art of Logic Pierre Nicole – A Discourse Against Plays and Romances César Vichard de Saint-Réal – Dom Carlos