- 1632 in literature
The year 1632 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
*On February 14, "
Tempe Restored ", amasque written byAurelian Townshend and designed byInigo Jones , is performed atWhitehall Palace .
*May -Tirso de Molina is appointed chronicler of the Order of Mercy.
*Death of Marta de Nevares, mistress ofLope 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
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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 byEdward Blount ), containing "Campaspe", "Endymion", "Gallathea ", "Midas", "Mother Bombie ", and "Sapho and Phao "
*Juan Pérez de Montalbán - "Para todos"
*Henry Reynolds - "Mythomystes"
*William Shakespeare - theSecond Folio of the playsNew 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
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John Milton - "L'Allegro "Births
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January 29 -Johann Georg Graevius , classical scholar (died1730 )
*June 10 -Esprit Fléchier , historian (died1710 )
*August 29 -John Locke , philosopher (died1704 )
*November 23 -Jean Mabillon , palaeographer (died1707 )
*November 24 -Baruch Spinoza , philosopher (died1677 )
*December 17 -Anthony Wood , antiquarian writer (died 1695)
*"date unknown" -Lancelot Addison , general author and father ofJoseph Addison (died1703 )Deaths
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February 23 -Giambattista Basile , poet and collector of fairy tales (born c.1570 )
*May 5 -Luís de Sousa , religious writer (born1555 )
*August 25 - Thomas Dekker, dramatist (born c.1572 )
*"date unknown" -Alexandre Hardy , dramatist (born c.1571 )
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