1641 In Literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1641.

Events

*March 12 – Abraham Cowley's play ''The Guardian'' is acted at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the presence of Prince Charles (later King Charles II).
*Spring – Pierre Corneille marries Marie de Lampérière.
*c. May – William Davenant is convicted of high treason for his part in the First Army Plot in England.
*August 5 – Because of an increase in cases of plague, John Lowin delivers warrants to London theatres ordering them to close.
*c. December – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, becomes an advisor to King Charles I of England.

New books

Prose

* 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 – '
*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

*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

*April 8 (baptised) – William Wycherley, English playwright (died 1716)
*April 15 – Robert Sibbald, Scottish historian (died 1722)
*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 Protestant author (died 1717)
**William Sherlock, English theologian (died 1707)

Deaths

*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)
*April 6 (buried) – Thomas Nabbes, English dramatist (born 1605)
*April 13 – Richard Montagu, English theologian (born 1577)
*June 26 – Antony Hickey, Irish Franciscan theologian (born 1586)
*July 15 – Arthur Johnston, Scottish poet and physician (born c. 1579)
*August 9 – Augustine Baker, Welsh-born Benedictine writer (born 1575)
*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

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