- 1642 in literature
The year 1642 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
*The theatres in London are closed by the
Puritan government on September 2; the "lascivious mirth and levity" of stage plays are to "cease and be forborn" for the next eighteen years, during theEnglish Civil War and the Interregnum. ReportedlyRichard Brome 's "A Jovial Crew " is staged on the final day, and so is the last play performed during the era ofEnglish Renaissance theatre .New books
* Sir
Thomas Browne - "Religio Medici "
*Thomas Fuller - "The Holy State and the Profane State"
* SirWalter Raleigh - "The Prince, or Maxims of State"New drama
*
François le Métel de Boisrobert - "La Belle Palène"
*Pierre Corneille - "Polyeucte"
*Francis Jaques - "The Queen of Corsica"
*Pierre du Ryer - "Saul"
*James Shirley - "The Sisters"
*Jan Vos - "Klucht van Oene"New poetry
* Sir John Denham - "
Cooper's Hill "
*Richard Lovelace - "To Althea, from Prison"Births
*
December 30 -Vincenzo da Filicaja , poet (died1707 )
*"probable" -Thomas Shadwell , dramatist (died1692 )
*"probable" -Edward Taylor , poet and author (died1729 )Deaths
*May or June - Sir John Suckling, poet (born
1609 )
*"date unknown" - SirFrancis Kynaston , poet (born1587 )
*"date unknown" -James Mabbe , poet (born1572 )
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