1637 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1637.
Events
- January – Académie française over its failure to observe all the classical unities of drama and supposed lack of moral purpose, but proves popular with audiences.[1]
- January 24 – Hamlet is performed before King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria at Hampton Court Palace.
- July 10 – Thomas Browne is registered as a physician, following which he settles in Norwich.[2]
- August 30 – The King's Men mount a production for the English Court of William Cartwright's The Royal Slave at Christ Church, Oxford. The company is paid an extra £30 "for their pains in studying and acting" the drama.[3]
- October 2 – The London theatres re-open, having been closed almost continuously since May 1636 because of a severe outbreak of bubonic plague.
- Stationers' Company.[4]
- unknown date – Willem Blaeu sets up Europe's largest printing house in Amsterdam, specializing in cartography.
New books
- María de Zayas – Novelas amorosas y ejemplares
- René Descartes – Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences
- Thomas Heywood – Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas
- Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – Aventuras del bachiller Trapaza
- Baltasar Gracián – El héroe
- María de Zayas y Sotomayor– Novelas amorosas y ejemplares. Honesto y entretenido sarao
- Marin Mersenne – Traité de l'harmonie universelle
- Song Yingxing (宋應星) – Tiangong Kaiwu(天工開物, Exploitation of the Works of Nature)
New drama
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- A secreto agravio, secreta venganza
- El mayor monstruo del mundo
- El médico de su honra
- El Tetrarca published
- Georgios Chortatzis (probably posthumously) – Erofili published
- Pierre Corneille – Le Cid
- Isaac de Benserade
- La Mort d’Achille et la Dispute de ses armes
- Gustaphe ou l’Heureuse Ambition
- Iphis et Iante
- John Fletcher and Philip Massinger – The Elder Brother published
- François Tristan l'Hermite – Penthée
- Thomas Heywood – The Royal King and the Loyal Subject published
- Comus (masque) published
- Thomas Nabbes – Microcosmus, a Moral Masque
- Thomas Neale – The Warde
- Joseph Rutter – The Cid, Part 1 published
- James Shirley – five plays published in five single-play quartos: The Example, The Gamester, Hyde Park, The Lady of Pleasure and The Young Admiral
- Sir John Suckling – Aglaura
- Joost van den Vondel – Gijsbrecht van Aemstel written
- George Wilde – The Converted Robber
Poetry
- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling – Recreations of the Muses
- James Day – A New Spring of Divine Poetry
- Thomas Jordan – Poetical Varieties
- Shackerley Marmion – Cupid and Psyche, a 2000-line translation and adaptation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius
- Gabriel Bocángel – La lira de las musas
- Miguel Dicastillo – Aula de Dios
- Lope de Vega – La vega del Parnaso
- Jorge Pinto de Morales – Maravillas del Parnaso y flor de los mejores romances graves, burlescos y satíricos
Births
- December 24 – Pierre Jurieu, French theologian (died 1713)
- December 27 – Petar Kanavelić, Croatian poet and songwriter (died 1719)
- December 30 – William Cave, English theologian (died 1713)
- Unknown date
- Agnes Campbell, Scottish printer (died 1716)
- Zeb-un-Nisa, Sufi poet (died 1702)
- Probable year of birth – Robert Ferguson, Scottish pamphleteer (died 1714)
Deaths
- February 9 – Philemon Holland, English translator and schoolmaster (born 1552)
- February 24 – Dominicus Arumaeus, Dutch legal writer (born 1579)
- February – Gervase Markham, English poet (born c. 1568)
- March 19 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and cardinal (born 1570)
- May 19 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch philosopher and diarist (born 1588)
- August 6 – Ben Jonson, English poet and dramatist (born c. 1572)
- August 10
- Johann Gerhard, German theologian (born 1582)
- Edward King, Anglo-Irish poet (drowned in shipwreck, born 1612)
- October 5 – Daniel Cramer, German theologian and dramatist (born 1568)
References
- ISBN 9780521100878.
- ISBN 978-0-19-964043-0.
- ISBN 978-0-429-76607-7.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Firth, Charles Harding (1893). "Lilburne, John". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 33. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 243–250.
