The year 1662 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- Two autos sacramentales by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, entitled Las órdenes militares and Mística y real Babilonia, are the subject of an inquiry by the Inquisition; the former is censured, its manuscript copies confiscated, and remains condemned until 1671.
- Robert Herrick returns to his parish in Devon, following the Restoration.
- On September 29, Samuel Pepys sees the King's Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In his Diary, he calls it "The most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life."
- Parliament passes the first Printing Act of the Restoration era, the Licensing of the Press Act 1662, which restricts London printers to a total of 24, each with no more than 3 presses and 3 apprentices. Books printed abroad are banned.
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