1664 in literature

The year 1664 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• Sir William Davenant's "dramatic opera" Macbeth, adapted from Shakespeare's play, premiers on November 5.
• Thomas Killigrew and the King's Company stage Killigrew's The Parson's Wedding with an all-female cast. (Killigrew attempts a similar all-female production of his play Thomaso, though the project is never realized.)

New books

• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle - Sociable Letters
• Charles Cotton - The Compleat Gamester
• René Descartes - Traité de l'homme et de la formation du foetus
• John Evelyn - Sylva, or Discourse on Forest Trees
• Richard Flecknoe - A Discourse of the English Stage
• John Heydon - Psonthonpanchia
• Theomagia, Part 3
• Lucy Hutchinson - Memoirs Of The Life Of Colonel Hutchinson
• Thomas Killigrew - collected plays
• William Killigrew - three plays in one folio volume
• William Shakespeare - the second impression of the Third Folio, which added seven plays to the thirty-six of the First Folio and the Second: Pericles, Prince of Tyre and six works from the Shakespeare Apocrypha
• Jeremy Taylor - Dissuasive from Popery
• Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler, 3rd edition

New drama

• Lodowick Carlell - Heraclius, Emperor of the East published (adapted from Corneille's Heraclius)
• Pierre Corneille - Othon
• Sir William Davenant - The Rivals (an adaptation of The Two Noble Kinsmen)
• John Dryden - The Rival Ladies
• John Dryden and Sir Robert Howard - The Indian Queen
• George Etherege - The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub
• Edward Howard - The Usurper
• John Lacy - The Old Troop
• Molière - Tartuffe
• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - Henry V
• Thomas Porter - The Carnival
• Jean Racine - La Thébaide
• Joost van den Vondel - Adam in Ballingschap
• John Wilson - Andronicus Comnenius
• - The Projectors

Poetry

• Samuel Butler - Hudibras Part 2
• Katherine Philips - Poems

Births

• ?January 24 - Sir John Vanbrugh (died 1726)
• July 21 - Matthew Prior (died 1721)
• November 9 - Henry Wharton (died 1695)
• probable - William Mountfort (died 1692)

Deaths

• January 20 - Isaac Ambrose (born 1604)
• July 16 - Andreas Gryphius (born 1616)
• November 18 - Nikola Zrinski (born 1620)
• date unknown - Bihari (born 1600)