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1655 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1655.

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Events

  • February 24 – English playwright Thomas Porter abducts his future bride Anne Blount.
  • March 26 – Thomas Porter kills a soldier named Thomas Salkeld in Covent Garden, probably in a duel, is consequently tried for murder, pleads guilty to manslaughter, is allowed benefit of clergy, and is sentenced to be burned in the hand.
  • May–October – Church of England clergyman Jeremy Taylor is imprisoned at Chepstow Castle for an injudicious preface to his popular manual of devotion, Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and letanies, published this year.
  • August 6 – The Blackfriars Theatre in London is demolished.
  • October 29 – To celebrate Lord Mayor's Day, Edmund Gayton's pageant Charity Triumphant or the Virgin Show is staged in London; it is the first City pageant in fifteen years.
  • Thomas Stanley begins his History of Philosophy.

    • New books

  • John Bramhall – Defense of True Liberty; Bramhall, an Anglican divine, begins a correspondence of treatises with Thomas Hobbes
  • Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle – The World's Olio
  • Thomas Fuller – The Church History of Britain
  • John Heydon – Eugenius Theodidacticus
  • Michel Millot – L'Escole des filles
  • William Prynne – A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny
  • Sir William Sales – Theophania
  • John Wallis – Elenchus geomeiriae Hobbianae, an attack on the work of Thomas Hobbes
  • Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler, second edition
  • Baltasar Gracián – El comulgatorio
  • Francisco de Quevedo – Política de Dios y gobierno de Cristo (second part)
  • Diego Saavedra Fajardo – Juicio de artes y ciencias

    • Published plays

  • Anonymous – The Gossips' Brawl, or the Women Wear the Breeches
  • Antony Brewer – The Lovesick King
  • Lodowick Carlell – The Passionate Lovers, Parts 1 and 2
  • Robert Daborne – The Poor Man's Comfort
  • Robert Davenport – King John and Matilda
  • Thomas Heywood & William Rowley – Fortune by Land and Sea
  • Sir William Lower – Polyeuctes, or the Martyr
  • Philip Massinger – Three New Plays, a collection that included The Guardian, The Bashful Lover, and (with John Fletcher) A Very Woman
  • William Rider – The Twins
  • James Shirley – The Gentleman of Venice and The Politician
  • Jeremy Taylor – Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and letanies . .

    • Poetry

  • Henry Vaughan – Silex Scintillans (part 2)
  • Earl of Rebolledo
  • La constancia victoriosa
  • Elegías sacras

    • Births

  • January 1 – Christian Thomasius, German philosopher (died 1728)
  • November (approximate date) – Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (died 1736)

    • Deaths

  • February 25 – Daniel Heinsius, Dutch poet (born 1580)
  • July 28 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist (born 1619)
  • September 7 – François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (born c. 1601)
  • October 24 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher (born 1592)
  • Probable year of death – John Reynolds, English poet, story-writer and pamphleteer (born c. 1588)

    • References

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