Events
- With the death of Sir Henry Herbert, Thomas Killigrew is appointed Master of the Revels. Killigrew and the King's Company revive Killigrew's The Parson's Wedding with an all-female cast, a tactic first used in a 1664 production.
- In response to events of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, John Dryden's topical play Amboyna, about events in the East Indies, is reportedly "contrived and written in a month" — certainly one of the fastest acts of solo dramatic composition known. The drama premiers onstage in May.
- Elkanah Settle's tragedy The Empress of Morocco, acted by the Duke's Company, is published in quarto; in addition to its frontispiece illustration, the quarto contains five woodcuts depicting scenes in the play — the first English play text illustrated in this way. Settle's play also inspires a farce with the same title, probably by Thomas Duffet, performed by the King's Company and published the following year.
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