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. Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster and Dryden's The Maiden Queen are also staged with all-women casts and 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 is first performed in London by the King's Company.
The Mercure de France is first published, under the title Mercure galant.

Nicolás Antonio – Bibliotheca Hispana Nova
Nicolas Denys – Description Géographique et Historique des Costes de l’Amérique Septentrionale
Richard Cumberland – De legibus naturae
Melchor Fuster – Conceptos predicables
Gadla Walatta Petros
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''

January 18 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer,
March – Sir Richard Steele, Irish dramatist, satirist and politician
May 1 – Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet and politician
August 2 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist, historian and travel writer
October 27 – Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna, Swedish writer