1641 in literature

1641 in literature

The year 1641 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*Pierre Corneille marries Marie de Lampérière.
*Sir William Davenant is convicted of high treason.
*Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon becomes an advisor to King Charles I of England.
*Abraham Cowley's play "The Guardian" is acted before Prince Charles (later to be King Charles II) at Trinity College, Cambridge on March 12.

New books

*George Abbot - "Vindiciae Sabbathi"
*Moses Amyraut - "De l'elevation de la foy et de l'abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion"
*Richard Baker - "Apologie for Laymen's Writing in Divinity, with a Short Meditation upon the Fall of Lucifer"
*Sir Edward Coke - "The Complete Copyholder"
*Luís Vélez de Guevara - "El Diablo cojuelo"
*William Habington - "Observations upon History"
*Joseph Hall - "Episcopacy by Divine Right"
*Samuel Hartlib - "A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria"
*Thomas Heywood - "The Life of Merlin surnamed Ambrosius"
*Thomas Hobbes - "De Cive"
*Sir Francis Kynaston - "Leoline and Sydanis"
*John Milton - "Of Reformation"
*Sir Robert Naunton - "Fragmenta Regalia", or "Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her Times and Favourites" (posthumously published)
*Sir Henry Spelman - "De Sepultura"
*John Taylor - "John Taylors Last Voyage and Adventure"
*John Wilkins - "Mercury, or The Secret and Swift Messenger"

New drama

*Richard Braithwaite - "Mercurius Britanicus"
*Richard Brome - "A Jovial Crew"
*Abraham Cowley - "The Guardian"
*John Day - "The Parliament of Bees" published
*John Denham - "The Sophy"
*Thomas Jordan - "The Walks of Islington and Hogsdon"
*Thomas Killigrew - "The Prisoners" and "Claricilla" published
*Shackerley Marmion - "The Antiquary" published
*James Shirley - "The Cardinal"
*John Tatham - "The Distracted State"

Births

*April 15 - Sir Robert Sibbald, historian (died 1722)
*March - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, politician and writer (died 1711)
*May 10 - Sir Dudley North, economist (died 1691)
*May - Juan Núñez de la Peña, historian (died 1721)
*October - Henry Dodwell, theologian (died 1711)
*"date unknown" - Pierre Allix, Protestant author (died 1717)
*"date unknown" - Thomas Rymer, historian (died 1713)
*"probable" - William Sherlock, theologian (died 1707)

Deaths

*January 11
**Franciscus Gomarus, theologian (born 1563)
**Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, poet (born 1583)
*April 13 - Richard Montagu, theologian (born 1577)
*August 9 - Augustine Baker, religious writer (born 1575)
*August - Sir William Vaughan (writer), general author (born 1575)
*"date unknown" - Arthur Johnston, poet (born 1587)
*"date unknown" - Gerard de Malynes, merchant and author (born 1586)


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