1634 in literature

1634 in literature

The year 1634 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*On January 1, the King's Men perform "Cymbeline" at the English Court; they act Chapman's "Bussy D'Ambois" there on April 7. They perform Davenant's "The Wits" at the Blackfriars Theatre on January 22.
*On February 3 and 13, James Shirley's spectacular masque "The Triumph of Peace" is staged in London. On February 6, Shirley's play "The Gamester" is performed at Court.
* On February 18, Thomas Carew's masque "Coelum Britannicum" is staged at Whitehall Palace.
* Lodowick Carlell's lost play "The Spartan Lady" is acted on May 1.
* On May 21, a play called "Lisander and Callista" is performed — probably a version of the Fletcher/Massinger collaboration "The Lovers' Progress".
* On july 30, Ben Jonson's final masque, "Love's Welcome at Bolsover", is performed at Bolsover Castle.
*Académie française founded by Cardinal Richelieu.
*"The Two Noble Kinsmen" is entered into the Stationers' Register on April 8, and published later in the year.
*The Duke de Medinaceli forces Francisco de Quevedo into a short-lived marriage with Doña Esperanza de Aragón.

New books

*Moses Amyraut - "Traité de la predestination"
*Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo - "El Curioso y fabio Alexandro"
*John Blaxton - "The English Usurer"
*William Haydon - "The True Picture and Relation of Prince Henry..."
*Thomas Herbert - "Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique"
*Sir Thomas Muffet - "Theatrum Insectorum"

New drama

*Juan Ruiz de Alarcón - "La verdad sospechosa" (published)
*Richard Brome & Thomas Heywood - "The Late Lancashire Witches"
*William Davenant - "The Wits"
** - "Love and Honour," also known as "The Courage of Love"
** - "The Temple of Love" (masque)
*John Ford (& Thomas Dekker?) - "Perkin Warbeck" published
*Thomas Heywood - "A Maidenhead Well Lost" published
*Ben Jonson - "Love's Welcome at Bolsover"
*John Milton - "Comus" (masque)
*Thomas Nabbes - "Tottenham Court"
*James Shirley - "The Example"
** - "The Opportunity"
** - "The Triumph of Peace" (masque)

Poetry

*Richard Crashaw - "Epigrammatum sacrorum liber" ("A Book of Sacred Epigrams," in Latin)
*William Habington - "Castara" (published anonymously)

Births

*March - Madame de la Fayette, novelist (died 1693)
*July 14 - Pasquier Quesnel, theologian (died 1719)
*December 15 - Thomas Hansen Kingo, poet (died 1703)
*"date unknown" - Pierre Thomas, memoirist (died 1698)

Deaths

*May 12 - George Chapman, dramatist, poet and translator Born c.1559
*June 25 - John Marston, dramatist (born 1576)
*"date unknown" - Randle Cotgrave, lexicographer (born 1587)
*"probable" - John Webster, dramatist (born c.1580)


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