  the year 1684 in literature involved some significant events. ==events== *july 25 - english novelist and dramatist mary griffith marries merchant george pix. *november 11 - english dramatist nathaniel lee is admitted to bedlam hospital for the insane. * 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 rÃ©publique des lettres. ==new books== ===fiction=== *aphra behn - love-letters between a nobleman and his sister *john bunyan - the pilgrim's progress, second part *ihara saikaku - the great mirror of beauties ===non-fiction=== *jakob abbadie - traitÃ© de la vÃ©ritÃ© de la religion chrÃ©tienne *edward phillips - enchiridion linguae latinae *christian knorr von rosenroth - kabbala denudata is finished to be published *christopher sandius - bibliotheca antitrinitariorum *george savile, 1st marquess of halifax - the character of a trimmer * antonio de solÃ­s y rivadeneyra - historia de la conquista de mÃ©xico ==plays== *jean de la chapelle - ajax * john horne - fortune's task, or the fickle fair one * john lacy - sir hercules buffoon * simon neale - the mistaken beauty (adapted from corneille) * edward ravenscroft - dame dobson, or the cunning woman * thomas southerne - the disappointment, or the mother of fashion * pedro calderon de la barca ** los cabellos de absalÃ³n ** guÃ¡rdate del agua mansa ==poetry== *aphra behn - poems upon several occasions ==births== *february 21 - justus van effen, dutch journalist who also wrote in french (died 1735) *october 16 - peter walkden, diarist (died 1769) *december 3 - ludvig holberg, danish/norwegian essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright (died 1754) ==deaths== *april 1 - roger williams, theologian (born 1603) *october 1 - pierre corneille, dramatist (born 1606) *december 7 - john oldham, poet (born 1653) *date unknown - francisco de avellaneda, spanish dramatist and poet (born c.1625)
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