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1632 in literature

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This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1632.

Contents

Events

  • February 11 – The Protestant pastor Nicolas Antoine is committed to an asylum after converting to Judaism.
  • February 14 – Tempe Restored, a masque written by Aurelian Townshend and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.
  • March – King Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria visit the University of Cambridge. The students of Trinity College perform Thomas Randolph's The Jealous Lovers and Peter Hausted's The Rival Friends. The latter causes a theatrical riot and ensuing scandal.
  • May – Tirso de Molina is appointed chronicler of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.
  • Late – William Prynne's Histrio-mastix: The Players Scourge, or Actors Tragædie, an attack on the English Renaissance theatre (dated 1633) is published in London.

    • Prose

  • Diego Collado – Ars grammaticae Iaponicae linguae
  • Phineas Fletcher – The Way to Blessedness and Joy in Tribulation
  • Galileo Galilei – Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems)
  • Juan Pérez de Montalbán – Para todos
  • Henry Reynolds – Mythomystes

    • Drama

  • Anonymous – The Costly Whore
  • William Alabaster – Roxana (Latin play, first performed in the 1590s, published)
  • Richard Brome
  • The Weeding of Covent Garden (performed)
  • The Northern Lass (published)
  • Nathan Field and Philip Massinger – The Fatal Dowry (published)
  • Thomas Goffe – The Courageous Turk (published)
  • Robert Gomersal – Lodovick Sforza, Duke of Milan (published)
  • Peter Hausted – The Rival Friends
  • Thomas Heywood – The Iron Age, Part 1 and 2 (published)
  • Ben Jonson – The Magnetic Lady
  • John Lyly – Six Court Comedies (published posthumously by Edward Blount), containing Campaspe, Endymion, Gallathea, Midas, Mother Bombie, and Sapho and Phao
  • Jean Mairet – Les Galanteries du duc d'Ossonne
  • Philip Massinger – The City Madam (performed)
  • The Maid of Honour published
  • Thomas Randolph -The Jealous Lovers
  • The Muses' Looking-Glass
  • William Rowley (and others?) – A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed published
  • James Shirley
  • The Ball
  • The Changes, or Love in a Maze
  • Hyde Park
  • William Shakespeare – the Second Folio of the plays
  • John Tatham – Love Crowns the End
  • Aurelian Townshend – Tempe Restored (masque)

    • Poetry

  • John Milton – L'Allegro

    • Births

  • January 1 – Katherine Philips, née Fowler, Anglo-Welsh poet, translator and woman of letters (died 1664)
  • January 29 – Johann Georg Graevius, German classicist (died 1730)
  • March 4 (baptised) – Lancelot Addison, English author and father of Joseph Addison (died 1703)
  • June 10 – Esprit Fléchier, French historian and bishop (died 1710)
  • August 29 – John Locke, English philosopher (died 1704)
  • November 23 – Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer (died 1707)
  • November 24 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (died 1677)
  • December 17 – Anthony Wood, English antiquary (died 1695)
  • Unknown date – Francis Kirkman, English bibliophile (died c. 1680)

    • Deaths

  • February 23 – Giambattista Basile, Neapolitan poet and fairy-tale collector (born c. 1570)
  • April 20 – Nicolas Antoine, French theologian (executed, born c. 1602)
  • May 5 – Luís de Sousa, Portuguese religious writer (born 1555)
  • August 25 – Thomas Dekker, English dramatist (born c. 1572)
  • By October – Edward Blount, English publisher (born 1562)
  • Unknown dates
  • Aharon Ibn Hayyim, Moroccan Talmudic commentator (born 1545)
  • Alexandre Hardy, French dramatist (plague, born c. 1571)
  • George Percy, English explorer and diarist (born 1580)

    • References

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