- 1637 in literature
The year 1637 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
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Hamlet " is performed before King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria atHampton Court Palace on January 24.
*On October 2, the London theatres re-open; they had been closed almost continuously since May 1636, due to a severe outbreak ofbubonic plague .
* The King's Men mount a production for the Court of William Cartwright's "The Royal Slave", a play that was first staged atChrist Church, Oxford the previous year. The company is paid an extra £30 "for their pains in studying and acting" the drama.New books
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René Descartes - "Discours de la Méthode"
*Thomas Heywood - "Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas"
*Marin Mersenne - "Universal Harmony"
*María de Zayas y Sotomayor - "Novelas amorosas y ejemplares"
* Five plays byJames Shirley are published in individual editions - "The Example ," "The Gamester ," "Hyde Park," "The Lady of Pleasure ," and "The Young Admiral "New drama
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca - "El Tetrarca" published
*John Fletcher andPhilip Massinger - "The Elder Brother " published.
*François Tristan l'Hermite - "Penthée"
*Thomas Heywood - "The Royal King and the Loyal Subject" published
*John Milton - "Comus" (masque ) published
*Thomas Nabbes - "Microcosmus, a Moral Masque"
*Thomas Neale - "The Warde"
*Joseph Rutter - "The Cid, Part 1" published
*James Shirley - five plays published in five single-play quartos: "The Example ,The Gamester , Hyde Park,The Lady of Pleasure ," and "The Young Admiral "
*Sir John Suckling - "Aglaura"
*George Wilde - "The Converted Robber"Poetry
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William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling - "Recreations of the Muses"
*James Day - "A New Spring of Divine Poetry"
*Thomas Jordan - "Poetical Varieties"
*Shackerley Marmion - "Cupid and Psyche", a 2000-line translation and adaptation of "The Golden Ass " ofApuleius Births
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December 24 -Pierre Jurieu , Protestant theologian (died1713 )
*December 30 -William Cave , theologian (died1713 )
*"date unknown" -Zeb-un-Nisa , Sufi poet (died1702 )
*"probable" -Robert Ferguson , pamphleteer (died1714 )Deaths
*February -
Gervase Markham , poet (born c.1568 )
*February 24 -Dominicus Arumaeus , Dutch legal writer (born1579 )
*March 19 -Péter Pázmány , Hungarian philosopher and theologian (born1570 )
*May 19 -Isaac Beeckman , philosopher and diarist (born1588 )
*August 6 -Ben Jonson , poet and dramatist (born c.1572 )
*August 10 -Johann Gerhard , Lutheran theologian (born1582 )
*October 5 -Daniel Cramer , Lutheran theologian and dramatist (born1568 )
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