1639 in literature

1639 in literature

The year 1639 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* On May 21, the King's Men act John Fletcher's "The Mad Lover".
*Blaise Pascal's family move to Rouen.
*François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer is elected to the Académie Française.
*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.
*Thomas Heywood writes "Londini Status Pacatus," the Lord Mayor of the City of London's annual pageant for 1639. It would be the last such London pageant for the next fifteen years, as the practice is dropped during the troubled times of the English Civil War — only to resume under the Commonwealth.

New books

*Rajmund Đamanjić - "Nauk za dobro pisati latinskijem slovima riječi jezika slovinskoga" (Croatian grammar)
*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"

New drama

*Lodowick Carlell - "Arviragus and Philicia, Parts 1 and 2" published
*George Chapman & James Shirley - "The Tragedy of Chabot" published
*Aston Cockayne – "A Masque at Bretbie"
*Pierre Corneille - "L'Illusion Comique", published
*"T. D." - "The Bloody Banquet" published (authorship disputed)
*William Davenant – "The Spanish Lovers"
*Robert Davenport - "A New Trick to Cheat the Devil" published
*John Fletcher -"Monsieur Thomas" and "Wit Without Money" posthumously published
*Henry Glapthorne - "Argalus and Parthenia" 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", "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...")
*Francis Quarles - "Memorials Upon the Death of Sir Robert Quarles, Knight"

Births

*February 6 - Daniel Georg Morhof, critic (died 1691)
*December 22 - Jean Racine, dramatist (died 1699)
*"date unknown" - Thomas Ellwood, religious writer (died 1713)
*"date unknown" - César Vichard de Saint-Réal, novelist (died 1692)
*"probable" - Charles Sedley, dramatist (died 1701)

Deaths

*January 23 - Francisco Maldonado de Silva, poet (burned at stake)
*May 21 - Tommaso Campanella, poet and theologian (born 1568)
*August 4 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, dramatist (born c.1581)
*August 20 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, poet (born 1597)
*November 26 - John Spottiswoode, historian (born 1565)
*"date unknown" - Shackerley Marmion, dramatist (born 1603)


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