1682 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1682.

Events

 * In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company of actors.
 * In Paris, the Bibliothèque Mazarine reopens at the Collège des Quatre-Nations.
 * In Japan, Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男, Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko, "The Man Who Spent His Life in Love") inaugurates what becomes known as ukiyo-zōshi ("books of the floating world"), the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction.

Prose

 * John Bunyan – The Holy War
 * Francisco Nunez de Cepeda – Idea del buen pastor representada en Empresas sacras
 * William Penn
 * Frame of Government of Pennsylvania
 * Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims
 * Mary Rowlandson – A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
 * Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴) – The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男 Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko)
 * Bulstrode Whitelocke – Memorials of the English Affairs from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I (Puritan viewpoint)

Children and young people

 * Dorcas Dole – Salutation and Seasonable Exhortation to Children (by a Quaker)

Drama

 * Anonymous – Mr. Turbulent
 * John Banks – The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex
 * John Banks – Vertue Betray'd
 * 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
 * William Shakespeare adapted by Nahum Tate – Coriolanus
 * Thomas Southerne – The Persian Prince, or the Loyal Brother
 * Pedro Calderon de la Barca – Verdadera V parte de comedias

Poetry

 * Nahum Tate (probable) – Absalom and Achitophel, part 2

Births

 * October 2 – Birgitte Christine Kaas, Norwegian poet and translator (died 1761)
 * October 29 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (died 1761)
 * Unknown date – Jacopo Facciolati, Paduan lexicographer and philologist (died 1769)

Deaths

 * March 12 – Francis Sempill, Scottish poet and wit (born c. 1616)
 * October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne, English polymath and poet (born 1605)
 * November 14 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678-1681 and travel writer (born 1619)
 * Unknown dates
 * Philip Hunton, English clergyman and political writer (born c. 1600)
 * Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Chilean writer and soldier (born 1607 in literature)