1639 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1639.
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Events
- c. January – The first printing press in British North America is launched in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Stephen Daye.
- February 14 – French writers Jacques Esprit and François de La Mothe Le Vayer are elected to the Académie française.
- May 21 – The King's Men act John Fletcher's The Mad Lover in London.
- December – Blaise Pascal's family move to Rouen.[1]
- December 7 – Francisco de Quevedo is arrested and imprisoned at León, Spain.[2]
- unknown dates
- Simon Dach becomes professor of poetry at the University of Königsberg.
- Archbishop William Laud donates the manuscript of the Peterborough Chronicle to the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
- Thomas Heywood writes Londini Status Pacatus, the Lord Mayor of the City of London's annual pageant.[3] It will be the last such in London for 15 years, due to the English Civil War, but will resume under the Commonwealth.
New books
Prose
- Jean du Vergier de Hauranne – Théologie familière, ou Instruction de ce que le Chrétien doit croire et faire en cette vie pour être sauvé
- Francisco de Quevedo – La isla de los monopantos
- Jan Marek Marci – De proportione motus seu regula sphygmica
- Friedrich Spanheim – Commentaire historique de la vie et de la mort de . . Christofle Vicomte de Dohna
- Henry Spelman (ed.) – Concilia, Decreta, Leges, Constitutiones in re Ecclesiarum Orbis Britannici (3 vols, containing many forgeries)[4]
Drama
- Lodowick Carlell – Arviragus and Philicia, Parts 1 and 2 (published)
- George Chapman and James Shirley – The Tragedy of Chabot (published)
- Aston Cockayne – A Masque at Bretbie
- Pierre Corneille – L'Illusion comique, (published)
- T. D. (authorship disputed) – The Bloody Banquet (published)
- William Davenant – The Spanish Lovers
- Robert Davenport – A New Trick to Cheat the Devil (published)
- John Fletcher (posthumously)
- Monsieur Thomas (published)
- Wit Without Money (published)
- Henry Glapthorne
- Argalus and Parthenia (published)
- Albertus Wallenstein (published)
- Sir William Lower – The Phoenix in Her Flames
- Philip Massinger – The Unnatural Combat published
- Jasper Mayne – The City Match
- James Shirley
- The Politician (performed)
- The Ball
- The Maid's Revenge
- The Changes, or Love in a Maze (published)
- Sir John Suckling – Brennoralt, or the Discontented Colonel
Poetry
- Richard Corbet – Certain Elegant Poems
- John Clarke – Paroemiologia ("Early to bed and early to rise...")
- Henry Glapthorne – Poems, including a series addressed to "Lucinda"
- Francis Quarles – Memorials Upon the Death of Sir Robert Quarles, Knight
Births
- February 6 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German critic (died 1691)
- December 22 – Jean Racine, French dramatist (died 1699)
- unknown dates
- Thomas Ellwood, English religious writer (died 1713)
- César Vichard de Saint-Réal, French novelist (died 1692)
- probable – Charles Sedley, English wit and dramatist (died 1701)
Deaths
- January – Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist (born 1603)[5]
- January 23 – Francisco Maldonado de Silva, Argentinian poet (burned at stake, born 1592)
- May 21 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian poet and theologian (born 1568)
- August 4 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, New Spanish dramatist (born c. 1581)
- August 20 – Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (born 1597)
- October – Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, English poet, translator and dramatist (born 1585)
- November 26 – John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (born 1565)[6]
References
- Great Inventors. Sura Books. p. 16. ISBN 978-81-7478-595-4.
- Germán Bleiberg; Maureen Ihrie; Janet Pérez (1993). Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 1330. ISBN 978-0-313-28732-9.
- Thomas Heywood (1874). The golden age. 1611. The silver age. 1613. The brazen age. 1613. The first and second parts of the iron age. 1632. J. Pearson. p. 443.
- "Myths of the Early British Church". Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries: Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Libraries. 2014. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
- Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1893). DNB. Smith, Elder, & Company.
- Samuel Warren (1855). Miscellanies, critical, imaginative, and juridical (1855). W. Blackwood. p. 361.
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