1693 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• July 29 - Anthony Wood is condemned in the vice-chancellor's court for certain libels against the late Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon; he is fined, banished from the university until he recants, and the offending pages are burned.
• Joseph Addison addresses an early poem to John Dryden.

• The Impartial Critick by John Dennis

• April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French memoirist
• - Marie Madeleine de Lafayette, French writer