Events
- August 24 - Samuel Pepys sees the new production of Hamlet by Sir William Davenant's troupe of actors, the Duke's Company, with the innovation of stage scenery. The Duke's Company had recently moved from the Salisbury Court Theatre to the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, where they were joined by Thomas Betterton; Pepys praises Betterton's Hamlet as "beyond imagination."
- December 28 - Controversial author James Harrington is arrested on a charge of conspiracy.
- The Book of Kells is presented to Trinity College, Dublin.
- John Gauden claims authorship of Eikon Basilike.
- Third edition of Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler.
- The trend toward closet drama (often highly politicized), which distinguished the English Civil War and Interregnum periods, does not immediately end once the theatres re-open with the Restoration — as the publication of Hell's High Court of Justice (below) illustrates.
- Abraham Cowley's pamphlet The Advancement of Experimental Philosophy helps to inspire the foundation of the Royal Society.
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