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
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