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1641 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1641.

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Events

  • March 12 – Abraham Cowley's play The Guardian is acted before Prince Charles (later to be King Charles II) at Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • Spring – Pierre Corneille marries Marie de Lampérière.
  • c. May – William Davenant is convicted of high treason for participation in the First Army Plot in England.
  • c. December – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon becomes an advisor to King Charles I of England.

    • New books

  • 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
  • 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
  • Gabriel Plattes – A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria
  • 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
  • Antonio López de Vega – Heráclito y Demócrito de nuestro siglo
  • Juan Eusebio Nieremberg – De la hermosura de Dios y su amabilidad, por las infinitas perfecciones del ser divino
  • Fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino – Obras póstumas divinas y humanas
  • Luis Vélez de Guevara – El diablo Cojuelo

    • New 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 Jordan – The Walks of Islington and Hogsdon
  • Thomas Killigrew – The Prisoners and Claricilla published
  • Shackerley Marmion – The Antiquary published
  • James Shirley – The Cardinal
  • John Tatham – The Distracted State
  • Lope de Vega – 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)
  • 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)
  • August 9 – Augustine Baker, Welsh-born Benedictine writer (born 1575)
  • August 16 – Thomas Heywood, English playwright, actor, poet and author (born c. 1573)
  • Between August 14 and 27 – Sir William Vaughan, Welsh writer and colonist (born 1575)
  • Unknown dates
  • Arthur Johnston, Scottish poet and physician (born c. 1579)
  • Gerard de Malynes, English merchant and author (born 1586)

    • References

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