This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1682.

• In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company of actors.^[1]
• In Paris, the Bibliothèque Mazarine reopens at the Collège des Quatre-Nations.
• In Japan, Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男, Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko, "The Man Who Spent His Life in Love") inaugurates what becomes known as ukiyo-zōshi ("books of the floating world"), the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction.

• John Bunyan – The Holy War
• Francisco Nunez de Cepeda – Idea del buen pastor representada en Empresas sacras
• William Penn
  • Frame of Government of Pennsylvania
  • Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims
• Mary Rowlandson – A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
• Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴) – The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男 Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko)
• Bulstrode Whitelocke – Memorials of the English Affairs from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I (Puritan viewpoint)

• Dorcas Dole – Salutation and Seasonable Exhortation to Children (by a Quaker)

• Anonymous – Mr. Turbulent
• John Banks – The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex
• John Banks – Vertue Betray'd
• John Dryden – MacFlecknoe
• John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee – The Duke of Guise
• Thomas d'Urfey
  • The Injured Princess (adapted from Cymbeline)
  • The Royalist
• Thomas Otway – Venice Preserv'd
• William Shakespeare adapted by Nahum Tate – Coriolanus
• Thomas Southerne – The Persian Prince, or the Loyal Brother
• Pedro Calderon de la Barca – Verdadera V parte de comedias

• Nahum Tate (probable) – Absalom and Achitophel, part 2

• October 2 – Birgitte Christine Kaas, Norwegian poet and translator (died 1761)^[2][3]
• October 29 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (died 1761)
• Unknown date – Jacopo Facciolati, Paduan lexicographer and philologist (died 1769)

• March 12 – Francis Sempill, Scottish poet and wit (born c. 1616)
• October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne, English polymath and poet (born 1605)
• November 14 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678-1681 and travel writer (born 1619)
• Unknown dates
  • Philip Hunton, English clergyman and political writer (born c. 1600)
  • Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Chilean writer and soldier (born 1607 in literature)