1641 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1641.
Events[edit]
- March 12 – Abraham Cowley's play The Guardian is acted at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the presence of Prince Charles (later King Charles II).[1]
- Spring – Pierre Corneille marries Marie de Lampérière.[2]
- c. May – William Davenant is convicted of high treason for his part in the First Army Plot in England and flees to France.
- August 5 – Because of an increase in cases of bubonic plague, John Lowin delivers warrants to London theatres ordering them to close.[3]
- c. December – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, becomes an advisor to King Charles I of England.
New books[edit]
Prose[edit]
- George Abbot – Vindiciae Sabbathi
- Moses Amyraut – De l'elevation de la foy et de l'abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion
- Richard Baker – Apologie for Laymen's Writing in Divinity, with a Short Meditation upon the Fall of Lucifer
- Sir Edward Coke – The Complete Copyholder
- Luís Vélez de Guevara – El Diablo cojuelo
- René Descartes – Meditations on First Philosophy
- William Habington – Observations upon History
- Joseph Hall – Episcopacy by Divine Right
- Samuel Hartlib (nominal author, really by Gabriel Plattes) – A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria
- Thomas Heywood – The Life of Merlin surnamed Ambrosius
- Thomas Hobbes – De Cive
- Sir Francis Kynaston – Leoline and Sydanis
- John Milton – Of Reformation
- Sir Robert Naunton (died 1635) – Fragmenta Regalia, or Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her Times and Favourites
- Mother Shipton (died 1561, attributed) – The prophesie of Mother Shipton in the raigne of King Henry the eighth
- Sir Henry Spelman – De Sepultura
- Heinrich Stahl – Leyen Spiegel
- John Taylor – John Taylors Last Voyage and Adventure
- Nicolaes Tulp – Observationes Medicae
- John Wilkins – Mercury, or The Secret and Swift Messenger
- Francisco de Quevedo – Providencia de Dios
- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg – De la hermosura de Dios y su amabilidad, por las infinitas perfecciones del ser divino
- Luis Vélez de Guevara – El diablo Cojuelo
Drama[edit]
- Richard Braithwaite – Mercurius Britanicus
- Richard Brome – A Jovial Crew
- Abraham Cowley – The Guardian
- John Day – The Parliament of Bees (published)
- John Denham – The Sophy
- Thomas Killigrew – The Prisoners and Claricilla (published)
- Shackerley Marmion – The Antiquary (published)
- James Shirley – The Cardinal
- John Tatham – The Distracted State
- Lope de Vega (died 1635) – El caballero de Olmedo (posthumous, written in 1620)
- Jan Vos – Aran en Titus, of wraak en weerwraak (Aran and Titus, or Revenge and Vengeance)
Births[edit]
- April 8 (baptised) – William Wycherley, English playwright (died 1716)
- April 15 – Robert Sibbald, Scottish historian (died 1722)[4]
- March 15 (baptised) – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English politician and writer (died 1711)
- May 16 – Dudley North, English economist, merchant and politician (died 1691)
- May – Juan Núñez de la Peña, Spanish historian (died 1721)
- Late October – Henry Dodwell, Irish-born theologian (died 1711)
- unknown dates
- Pierre Allix, French-born Protestant preacher and writer (died 1717)
- William Sherlock, English churchman and theologian (died 1707)
Deaths[edit]
- January 11
- Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (born 1563)
- Juan de Jáuregui, Spanish poet and painter (born 1583)
- February 15 – Sara Copia Sullam, Italian poet and writer (born 1592)[5]
- April 6 (buried) – Thomas Nabbes, English dramatist (born 1605)
- April 13 – Richard Montagu, English bishop and religious controversialist (born 1577)
- June 26 – Antony Hickey, Irish Franciscan theologian (born 1586)
- July 15 – Arthur Johnston, Scottish poet and physician (born c. 1579)[6]
- August 9 – Augustine Baker, Welsh-born Benedictine mystic and ascetic writer, of plague (born 1575)[7]
- August 16 – Thomas Heywood, English playwright, actor, poet and author (born c. 1573)
- August (between 14 and 27) – Sir William Vaughan, Welsh writer and colonist (born 1575)
References[edit]
- ^ Bibliotheca dramatica, a catalogue of the ... dramatic library of William Barnes Rhodes ... which will be sold by auction. 1825. p. 33.
- ^ Pierre Corneille (1907). Horace. H. Holt. p. xix.
- ^ Ms Barbara Wooding (28 September 2013). John Lowin and the English Theatre, 1603–1647: Acting and Cultural Politics on the Jacobean and Caroline Stage. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-4724-0687-3.
- ^ "Robert Sibbald - Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh". www.rcpe.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
- ^ Sarra Copia Sulam (15 November 2009). Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Works of Sarra Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose. University of Chicago Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-226-77987-4.
- ^ Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac. Oliver and Boyd. 1837. p. 151.
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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