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1631 in literature

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This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1631.

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Events

  • January 9 – Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged at Whitehall Palace.
  • January 11 – The Master of the Revels refuses to license Philip Massinger's new play, Believe as You List, because of its seditious content.
  • February 22 – Chloridia, the year's second Jonson/Jones masque, is performed.
  • June 10 – The King's Men perform Pericles, Prince of Tyre at the Globe Theatre.
  • The young Blaise Pascal moves with his family to Paris.
  • Thomas Hobbes is employed as a tutor by the Cavendish family, to teach the future Earl of Devonshire.
  • Roger Williams arrives in Boston, Mass.
  • Publication of the "Wicked Bible" by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, an edition of the King James Version of the Bible in which a typesetting erratum leaves the seventh of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:14) with the word not omitted from the sentence "Thou shalt not commit adultery". Copies are withdrawn and about a year later the publishers are called to the Star Chamber, fined £300 and have their licence to print revoked.

    • New books

  • Johann Philipp Abelin – Arma Suecica, volume 1
  • Moses Amyraut – Traité des religions
  • Collected works of Jacobus Arminius published posthumously in Frankfurt
  • Robert Fludd – Medicina Catholica (Volume 2)
  • Thomas Harriot – Artis analyticae praxis
  • James Mabbe – Celestina, or the Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, a 300-page closet drama or "novel in dialogue," translated from the Spanish-language original of Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina (1499)
  • Wicked Bible, a reprint of the King James Bible notable for typographical errors
  • William Oughtred – Clavis mathematicae

    • New drama

  • Anonymous – Fair Em published
  • George Chapman – Caesar and Pompey published
  • Henry Chettle – Hoffman published
  • Lope de Vega
  • Punishment without Revenge (El castigo sin venganza)
  • La noche de San Juan
  • Thomas Goffe – The Raging Turk published
  • Peter Hausted – Senile Odium
  • Thomas Heywood – The Fair Maid of the West, Parts 1 and 2 (published; probably performed in the previous year)
  • Ben Jonson
  • Chloridia (masque)
  • Love's Triumph Through Callipolis (masque)
  • Ralph Knevet – Rhodon and Iris (masque)
  • James Mabbe – The Spanish Bawd published
  • Jean Mairet – La Silvanire, ou la Morte-vive
  • Shackerley Marmion – Holland's Leaguer runs for a highly-unusual six straight performances
  • John Marston, with William Barkstead & Lewis Machin (?) – The Insatiate Countess published
  • Philip Massinger
  • Believe as You List
  • The Emperor of the East
  • Thomas May – Antigone, the Theban Princess published
  • Jean Rotrou – L'Hypocondriaque
  • James Shirley
  • The Traitor
  • Love's Cruelty
  • The Humorous Courtier
  • Love Tricks published as The School of Compliment
  • Aurelian Townshend – Albion's Triumph (masque)
  • Robert Ward (?) – Fucus Histriomastix
  • Arthur Wilson – The Swisser
  • Richard Zouche – The Sophister

    • Poetry

  • Richard Braithwait – The English Gentleman

    • Births

  • January 1 – Katharine Philips (Orinda), English poet (died 1664)
  • February 22 – Peder Syv, Danish philologist, folklorist and priest (died 1702)
  • March 6 – René Le Bossu, French critic (died 1680)
  • July 15 – Richard Cumberland, English philosopher (died 1718)
  • August 9 – John Dryden, English poet and dramatist (died 1700)
  • October 18 – Michael Wigglesworth, English-born American poet and minister (died 1705)
  • Unknown dates
  • John Barret, English religious writer and Presbyterian minister (died 1713)
  • John Phillips, English satirist and nephew of John Milton (died 1706)

    • Deaths

  • February 7 – Gabriel Harvey, English poet and author (born c. 1545)
  • March 31 – John Donne, English poet (born 1572)
  • May – Samuel Harsnett, English religious writer and archbishop (born 1561)
  • May 6 – Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary and founder of Cotton Library (born 1570)
  • July – Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian (born 1576)
  • July 28 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (born 1569)
  • September 22 – Cardinal Federico Borromeo, Italian archbishop and founder of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (born 1564)
  • October 26 – Lewis Bayly, Welsh or Scottish-born religious writer and bishop writing in English (unknown year of birth)
  • November 29 – Edmond Richer, French theologian (born 1559)
  • December 23 – Michael Drayton, English poet (born 1563)

    • References

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