1632 in literature

1632 in literature

The year 1632 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*On February 14, "Tempe Restored", a masque written by Aurelian Townshend and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.
*May - Tirso de Molina is appointed chronicler of the Order of Mercy.
*Death of Marta de Nevares, mistress of Lope de Vega.
*King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria visit Cambridge University in March. The students of Trinity College perform Randolph's "The Jealous Lovers" and Hausted's "The Rival Friends", the latter causing a theatrical riot and subsequent scandal.

New books

*Phineas Fletcher - "The Way to Blessedness" and "Joy in Tribulation"
*Galileo Galilei - "Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems)"
*John Lyly - "Six Court Comedies" (published posthumously by Edward Blount), containing "Campaspe", "Endymion", "Gallathea", "Midas", "Mother Bombie", and "Sapho and Phao"
*Juan Pérez de Montalbán - "Para todos"
*Henry Reynolds - "Mythomystes"
*William Shakespeare - the Second Folio of the plays

New drama

*Anonymous - "The Costly Whore"
*William Alabaster - "Roxana" (Latin play, first performed during the 1590s) published
*Richard Brome - "The Weeding of Covent Garden" performed
**"The Northern Lass" published
*Nathan Field & Philip Massinger - "The Fatal Dowry" published
*Thomas Goffe - "The Courageous Turk" published
*Robert Gomersal - "Lodovick Sforza, Duke of Milan" published
*Peter Hausted - "The Rival Friends"
*Thomas Heywood - "The Iron Age, Part 1 and 2" published
*Ben Jonson - "The Magnetic Lady"
*Jean Mairet - "Les Galanteries du duc d'Ossonne"
*Philip Massinger - "The City Madam" performed
**"The Maid of Honour" published
*Thomas Randolph -"The Jealous Lovers"
**"The Muses' Looking-Glass"
*William Rowley (and others?) - "A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed" published
*James Shirley - "The Ball"
**"The Changes, or Love in a Maze"
**"Hyde Park"
*John Tatham - "Love Crowns the End"
*Aurelian Townshend - "Tempe Restored" (masque)

Poetry

*John Milton - "L'Allegro"

Births

*January 29 - Johann Georg Graevius, classical scholar (died 1730)
*June 10 - Esprit Fléchier, historian (died 1710)
*August 29 - John Locke, philosopher (died 1704)
*November 23 - Jean Mabillon, palaeographer (died 1707)
*November 24 - Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (died 1677)
*December 17 - Anthony Wood, antiquarian writer (died 1695)
*"date unknown" - Lancelot Addison, general author and father of Joseph Addison (died 1703)

Deaths

*February 23 - Giambattista Basile, poet and collector of fairy tales (born c.1570)
*May 5 - Luís de Sousa, religious writer (born 1555)
*August 25 - Thomas Dekker, dramatist (born c.1572)
*"date unknown" - Alexandre Hardy, dramatist (born c.1571)


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