1671 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1671.
Events
- February – Nell Gwyn retires from the stage and moves into a brick townhouse at 79 Pall Mall, London.
- November 9 – The Duke's Company open their new venue, the Dorset Garden Theatre.
- Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières is awarded the first prize given for poetry by the Académie française.
- Philosophus Autodidactus, the first Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's 12th century tale Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, prepared by Edward Pococke before 1660, is published for the first time.
New books
Prose
- Edward Bagshaw – The Life and Death of Mr Vavasor Powell
- Edward Burrough – The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: Namely, that True Prophet, and Faithful Servant of God, and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus, Edward Burroughs...
- Marie-Catherine de Villedieu – Les Amours des Grands Hommes
- Johann Ferdinand Hertodt – Crocologia
- John Josselyn – New England's Rarities, discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country
- Gottfried Leibniz – Hypothesis Physica Nova
- Pierre Martin de La Martinière – Voyage des pays septentrionaux
- Arnoldus Montanus – De nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld of Beschryving van America
- Isaac Newton – Method of Fluxions
- Jane Sharp – ''The Midwives Book: or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered''
Children
- James Janeway – ''A Token for Children''
Drama
- Aphra Behn – The Amorous Prince
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca – El santo rey don Fernando
- John Caryll – Sir Solomon Single
- Pierre Corneille – Tite et Bérénice
- John Corye – The Generous Enemies
- John Crowne
- * Charles VIII of France
- * Juliana
- John Dryden – The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery
- Edward Howard – The Six Days' Adventure
- Elizabeth Polwheele – The Frolicks
- Samuel Pordage – Herod and Mariamne
- Edward Ravenscroft – Mamamouchi
- Edward Revet – The Town Shifts
- Elkanah Settle – Cambyses
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham & others – The Rehearsal
- William Wycherley – ''Love in a Wood''
Poetry
- John Milton – Paradise Regained and ''Samson Agonistes''
Births
- April 6 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French dramatist and poet
- September 7 – Antoine Danchet, French dramatist and poet
- November 6 – Colley Cibber, English playwright and Poet Laureate
- Unknown date – Gustaf Adlerfelt, Swedish historian
- Unknown date, possibly 1672 – Sarah Dixon, English poet
Deaths
- January 1 – Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, French historian and cleric
- January 22 – Odorico Raynaldi, Italian historian
- February 22 – Adam Olearius, German librarian and scholar
- July 14 – Méric Casaubon, Swiss-born English classicist
- September 28 – Jean de Montigny, French philosopher and poet
- December 28 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classicist