This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1653.
March 26 – James Shirley's masque Cupid and Death is performed before the Portuguese ambassador in London.
Pierre Corneille retires from the theatre for six years.
John Evelyn buys Sayes Court, Deptford.
The actor Robert Cox is arrested at the Red Bull Theatre in London for performing a "droll" deemed to be a play (prohibited during the English Interregnum).
A law in Holland prohibits promulgation of Socinianism or other forms of nontrinitarianism.
Ann Collins – Divine Songs and Meditations
Sir Percy Herbert – The Princess Cloria, Parts 1 and 2
Edward Johnson – A History of New England
Jeremy Taylor – Twenty-five Sermons
Sir Thomas Urquhart
First English translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, Books I and II
Logopandecteision
Izaak Walton -The Compleat Angler
Arthur Wilson – The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James I
Baltasar Gracián – El criticón (second part)
Juan de Zabaleta – Errores celebrados
Blaise Pascal – Traité du triangle arithmétique
Anonymous – The Ghost, or the Woman Wears the Breeches published
Richard Brome – Five New Plays, a collection of his dramas including A Mad Couple Well-Match'd, The Novella, The Court Beggar, The City Wit, and The Damoiselle
John Ford (attributed to) – The Queen published
William Heminges – The Fatal Contract published
Henry Killigrew – Pallantus and Eudora published (Killigrew's revision of his own The Conspiracy, 1638)
Philippe Quinault – Les Rivales
Lope de Vega – La discreta enamorada
Agustín Moreto – El lindo don Diego
Paul Scarron – Don Japhel d'Arménie
Margaret Cavendish – Poems and Fancies
January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (died 1705)
March 8 – Goodwin Wharton, English autobiographer and politician (died 1704)
Unknown date – Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松 門左衛門), Japanese dramatist (died 1725)
Probable year of birth
Nathaniel Lee, English dramatist (died 1692)
Matthew Tindal, English deist writer (died 1733)
May 26 – Robert Filmer, English political theorist (born 1558)
July 10 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (born 1600)
September 3 – Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (born 1588)
September 23 – Jacques Goar, French Hellenist (born 1601)
Unknown dates
Zachary Boyd, Scottish poet (born 1585)
Piaras Feiritéar, Irish-language poet and rebel (hanged, born c. 1600)
John Taylor, English poet (born 1578)
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