1655 in literature

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

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.

John Bramhall – Defense of True Liberty (Anglican divine begins exchange of treatises with Thomas Hobbes)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle – The World's Olio
Nicholas Culpeper – Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick
Thomas Fuller – The Church History of Britain
John Heydon – Eugenius Theodidacticus
Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange (attributed) – L'Escole des filles
William Prynne
- A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny
- The Quakers Unmasked
John Wallis – Elenchus geomeiriae Hobbianae (attack on the works of Thomas Hobbes)
Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler (2nd 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

January 1 – Christian Thomasius, German philosopher (died 1728)
February 7 – Jean-François Regnard, French dramatist and diarist (died 1709)
November (approximate date) – Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (died 1736)
Unknown date – Lin Yining (林以寧), Chinese poet (died c. 1730)

February 25 – Daniel Heinsius, Dutch poet (born 1580)
May 8 – Edward Winslow, English theologian, pamphleteer and New England politician (born 1595)
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)

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