1693 in literature

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The year 1693 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• July 29 - Anthony Wood is condemned in the vice-chancellor's court for certain libels against 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.
• John Banks' historical play The Innocent Usurper, about Lady Jane Grey, is banned from the stage.

New books

• The Third Part of the Pilgrim's Progress (anonymous)
• Catherine Trotter (or Catherine Trotter Cockburn) - Olinda's Adventures; or, The Amours of a Young Lady
• Sir Thomas Urquhart & Peter Anthony Motteux - the first complete English translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel

New drama

• John Bancroft - Henry the Second, King of England; With the death of Rosamond
• William Congreve
  • The Old Bachelor
  • The Double Dealer
• Thomas D'Urfey - The Richmond Heiress, or A Woman Once in the Right
• Henry Higden - The Wary Widow, or Sir Noisy Parrot
• George Powell - A Very Good Wife (adapted from Richard Brome's The City Wit and The Court Beggar)
• Elkanah Settle - The New Athenian Comedy (published)
• Thomas Southerne - The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather Than Fail

Poetry

• John Dryden - Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (anthology)

Non-fiction

• John Dennis - The Impartial Critick
• John Dryden - A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire
• John Evelyn - The Compleat Gard'ner
• August Hermann Francke - Manuductio ad lectionem Scripturae Sacrae
• Robert Gould - The Corruption of the Times by Money
• John Locke - Some Thoughts Concerning Education
• Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World
• William Penn - Some Fruits of Solitude
• Thomas Rymer - A Short View of Tragedy
• Gabrielle Suchon - Traité de la morale et de la politique (On Morality and Politics)
• Samuel Wesley - The Life of Our Blessed Lord

Births

• Father Fray Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A., Spanish Augustinian friar historical writer, wrote Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas (died 1746)
• Eliza Haywood - dramatist, journalist, and novelist.
• George Lillo - dramatist.

Deaths

• April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French memoirist (born 1618)
• May 25 - Madame de La Fayette, French writer (born 1634)
• August - Charles Blount, deist author.
• Unknown date - Anna Åkerhjelm